Specifications

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Java™ Programming Language

Module 10, slide 36 of 37

Drawing in AWT

• You can draw in any Component (although AWT

provides the Canvas and Panel classes just for this

purpose).

• Typically, you create a subclass of Canvas or Panel and

override the paint method.

• The paint method is called every time the component

is shown (for example, if another window overlapped

the component and was then removed).

• Every component has a Graphics object.

• The Graphics class implements many drawing

methods.