Media: Graphics, Audio,Video - Java - page 475

You can then use any Graphics2D methods or any regular Graphics methods, getting to
them with the object reference g2 . One of the additional methods in Graphics2D is
setPaint() , which can take the place of setColor() to draw with a solid color. However, it
can also be called with several other types, and in this case we pass in an object called a Tex-
turePaint , which refers to a pattern. Our pattern is a simple set of diagonal lines, but any
pattern or even a bitmap from a file (see Drawing an Image ) can be used. Figure 12-4 shows
the resulting screen (it looks even better in color); the program itself is shown in
Example 12-3 .

Figure 12-4. TexturedText in action

Example 12-3. TexturedText.java
public public class class TexturedText TexturedText extends extends JComponent {

private private static long serialVersionUID = 8898234939386827451L ;

/** The image we draw in the texture */
protected

static final final long

protected BufferedImage bim ;
/** The texture for painting. */
TexturePaint tp ;
/** The string to draw. */
String mesg = "Stripey" ;
/** The font */
Font myFont = new

new Font ( "Lucida Regular" , Font . BOLD , 72 );

/** "main program" method - construct and show */
public

public static void main ( String [] av ) {

// create a TexturedText object, tell it to show up
final

static void

final Frame f = new new Frame ( "TexturedText" );