ADVANCED GUIS AND GRAPHICS - Java Programming: From Problem Analysis to Program Design - page 794

FIGURE 12-3 Output of the FontsDisplayed applet

class Color
So far, we have used only the default colors in our GUI programs. For example, the text
always appeared as black. You may want to show the text in different colors or change
the background color of a component. Java provides the class Color to accomplish this.
The class Color is contained in the package java.awt , so you need to use the
import statement:
import java.awt.*;

Table 12-5 shows various constructors and methods of the class Color .

TABLE 12-5 Some Constructors and Methods of the class Color

Color( int r, int g, int b)
//Constructor
//Creates a Color object with the red value r, green value g,
//and blue value b. In this case, r, g, and b can be
//between 0 and 255.
//Example: new

Color(0, 255, 0)

// creates a color with no red or blue component.

Color( int rgb)
//Constructor
//Creates a Color object with the red value r, green value g,
//and blue value b; RGB value consisting of the red component
//in bits 16-23, the green component in bits 8-15, and the
//blue component in bits 0-7.
//Example: new Color(255)

// creates a color with no red or green component.