
Applet and Graphics Programming • 387
Similarly, current color can be obtained by using the constructor of Color class which takes three
arguments of type int and represents red, green and blue component of the color. They can take value
between 0 and 255. One such usage is:
Color col = new Color(234, 45, 123);
g.getColor(col);
g.setColor(new Color(234, 45, 123));
setForeground(new Color(0,0,222));
In the above example, red component is 234, green 45 and blue 123.
Note: The default foreground color is black and default background color is light gray.
For getting the current foreground and background color, there are the functions ...