All Superinterfaces:

Transparency

All Known Implementing Classes:

Color, GradientPaint, LinearGradientPaint, MultipleGradientPaint, RadialGradientPaint, SystemColor, TexturePaint

public interface Paint extends Transparency

This Paint interface defines how color patterns can be generated for Graphics2D operations. A class implementing the Paint interface is added to the Graphics2D context in order to define the color pattern used by the draw and fill methods.
Instances of classes implementing Paint must be read-only because the Graphics2D does not clone these objects when they are set as an attribute with the setPaint method or when the Graphics2D object is itself cloned.

See Also:
PaintContext, Color, GradientPaint, TexturePaint, Graphics2D.setPaint(java.awt.Paint)

Fields
	Modifier and Type	Field and Description
	BITMASK	`static int` BITMASK Represents image data that is guaranteed to be either completely opaque, with an alpha value of 1.0, or completely transparent, with an alpha value of 0.0. static final int BITMASK Represents image data that is guaranteed to be either completely opaque, with an alpha value of 1.0, or completely transparent, with an alpha value of 0.0. See Also: Constant Field Values
	OPAQUE	`static int` OPAQUE Represents image data that is guaranteed to be completely opaque, meaning that all pixels have an alpha value of 1.0. static final int OPAQUE Represents image data that is guaranteed to be completely opaque, meaning that all pixels have an alpha value of 1.0. See Also: Constant Field Values
	TRANSLUCENT	`static int` TRANSLUCENT Represents image data that contains or might contain arbitrary alpha values between and including 0.0 and 1.0. static final int TRANSLUCENT Represents image data that contains or might contain arbitrary alpha values between and including 0.0 and 1.0. See Also: Constant Field Values

Methods
	Modifier and Type	Method and Description
	createContext	`PaintContext` createContext(java.awt.image.ColorModel cm, Rectangle deviceBounds, java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D userBounds, java.awt.geom.AffineTransform xform, RenderingHints hints) Creates and returns a `PaintContext` used to generate the color pattern. PaintContext createContext(java.awt.image.ColorModel cm, Rectangle deviceBounds, java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D userBounds, java.awt.geom.AffineTransform xform, RenderingHints hints) Creates and returns a `PaintContext` used to generate the color pattern. The arguments to this method convey additional information about the rendering operation that may be used or ignored on various implementations of the `Paint` interface. A caller must pass non-`null` values for all of the arguments except for the `ColorModel` argument which may be `null` to indicate that no specific `ColorModel` type is preferred. Implementations of the `Paint` interface are allowed to use or ignore any of the arguments as makes sense for their function, and are not constrained to use the specified `ColorModel` for the returned `PaintContext`, even if it is not `null`. Implementations are allowed to throw `NullPointerException` for any `null` argument other than the `ColorModel` argument, but are not required to do so. Parameters: `cm` - the preferred `ColorModel` which represents the most convenient format for the caller to receive the pixel data, or `null` if there is no preference. `deviceBounds` - the device space bounding box of the graphics primitive being rendered. Implementations of the `Paint` interface are allowed to throw `NullPointerException` for a `null` `deviceBounds`. `userBounds` - the user space bounding box of the graphics primitive being rendered. Implementations of the `Paint` interface are allowed to throw `NullPointerException` for a `null` `userBounds`. `xform` - the `AffineTransform` from user space into device space. Implementations of the `Paint` interface are allowed to throw `NullPointerException` for a `null` `xform`. `hints` - the set of hints that the context object can use to choose between rendering alternatives. Implementations of the `Paint` interface are allowed to throw `NullPointerException` for a `null` `hints`. Returns: the `PaintContext` for generating color patterns. See Also: `PaintContext`, `ColorModel`, `Rectangle`, `Rectangle2D`, `AffineTransform`, `RenderingHints`
	getTransparency	`int` getTransparency() Returns the type of this `Transparency`. int getTransparency() Description copied from interface: `Transparency` Returns the type of this `Transparency`. Returns: the field type of this `Transparency`, which is either OPAQUE, BITMASK or TRANSLUCENT.

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Interface Paint