Drawing a flower
Theresa McDonagh
seem to get the hang of it. It would be great to see some examples of code
and how it looks on the screen, just something to orient me so I can get off
the ground before I get further behind in my schoolwork.
Dennis Clarke
Well ... if you want a simple approach that seems to work relatively well, just
write a program that extends the Applet class and handles the paint method
only. This way you can draw your paint area and throw lines and pixels on there
with reckless abandon. For example :
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
// Plot a simple flower shape on an applet ...
public class flower extends Applet {
public void paint (Graphics page){
float r,g,b;
int x1, y1, x2, y2;
setSize (640,480);
setBackground (Color.black);
// create a subtle color of green ...
Color c = new Color ( (float) 0.0, (float) 0.4, (float) 0.0);
page.setColor (c);
// now draw some sort of subtle grid that we can comment out
later
for ( y2 = 0; y2 < 480; y2 = y2 + 10){
page.drawLine ( 1, y2, 639, y2);
} // end draw horizontal lines
for ( x2 = 0; x2 < 640; x2 = x2 + 10){
page.drawLine ( x2, 1, x2, 479);
} // end draw vertical lines
// Now draw a red border
c = new Color ( (float) 0.6, (float) 0.0, (float) 0.0);
page.setColor (c);
page.drawRect (0,0,639,479);
// draw the flower yourself
page.drawString ("A flower", 10, 440);
} // method paint
} // class flower
You will need some html as well ...
<html>
<head>
<title> A Flower </title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#C0C0C0">
<center>
Simple graphics flower ...
<br>
<hr>
<br>
<applet code="flower.class" width=640 height=480>
</applet>
</center>
</body>
</html>
If you compile the above with javac -verbose flower.java then you can run
appletviewer flower.html and you should be off to the races ... humble though
they may be ...
Dennis Clarke
dcl...@interlog.com