Drawing with Color in Java

In this section, you will see how to draw colorful shapes in java swing. There are various colorful shapes have been drawn in the given program. This program has used various types of methods to draw shapes and fill these with the appropriate color. Following are some methods are using in the given program to complete the required result. Pictorial representation for the result is given below:

Colorfull Shapes in Swing Application

drawRect():
This is the method of the Graphics class (The Graphics class is used to drawing different-different type of shapes). This method draws the rectangle. It takes some integer value as parameter. This method is written like : Graphics.drawRect(x, y, height, width);.

x - This is the variable represents the row no. or the x - coordinate.
y - This is also a variable represents the column no. or the y - coordinate.

drawOval():
This is the method of the Graphics class which draws the oval on the frame. This method takes argument same as the drawRect() method. In this method first come the width and then height is specified.

fillRect():
This is the method of the Graphics class which is used to fill rectangle with the specified color which is set before using the setColor() method of the Graphics class. It also takes argument same as the drawRect() method.

fillOval():
This is also the method of the Graphics class which is used to fill the oval with color specified in the setColor() method before. This method also takes argument same as the drawOval() method.

Here is the code of program:


import javax.swing.*;

import java.awt.*;



public class DrawingColor{

  public static void main(String[] args) {

  DrawingColor d = new DrawingColor();

  }



  public DrawingColor(){

  JFrame frame = new JFrame("Drawing with Alpha");

  frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

  frame.getContentPane().add(new MyComponent());

  frame.setSize(400,400);

  frame.setVisible(true);  

  }



  public class MyComponent extends JComponent{

  public void paint(Graphics g){

  int height = 200;

  int width = 120;

  g.setColor(Color.red);

  g.drawRect(10,10,height,width);

  g.setColor(Color.gray);

  g.fillRect(11,11,height,width); 

  g.setColor(Color.red);

  g.drawOval(250,20, height,width);

  g.setColor(Color.magenta);

  g.fillOval(249,19,height,width); 

  }

  }

}

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