awt

Drawing components example

With this tutorial we shall show you how to draw simple shapes in a Java Desktop Application. This is a very important step when designing your own graphics for your App

Basically, all you have to do in order to draw shapes in a Java application is:

  • Create a new Frame.
  • Create a class tha extends Component class and override the paint method.
  • Use Graphics2D.drawOval to draw an oval shape in the screen

 
 
Let’s see the code snippet that follows:

package com.javacodegeeks.snippets.desktop;

import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Frame;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;

public class DrawingComponentsExample {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

// Create a frame

Frame frame = new Frame();

// Add a component with a custom paint method

frame.add(new CustomPaintComponent());

// Display the frame

int frameWidth = 300;

int frameHeight = 300;

frame.setSize(frameWidth, frameHeight);

frame.setVisible(true);

  }

 /**
  * To draw on the screen, it is first necessary to subclass a Component 
  * and override its paint() method. The paint() method is automatically called 
  * by the windowing system whenever component's area needs to be repainted.
  */
  static class CustomPaintComponent extends Component {

public void paint(Graphics g) {

  // Retrieve the graphics context; this object is used to paint shapes

  Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;

  // Draw an oval that fills the window

  int x = 0;

  int y = 0;

  int width = getSize().width-1;

  int height = getSize().height-1;

   /**
    * The coordinate system of a graphics context is such that the origin is at the 
    * northwest corner and x-axis increases toward the right while the y-axis increases 
    * toward the bottom.
    */

  g2d.drawOval(x, y, width, height);

}

  }
}

 
This was an example on how to draw components.

Ilias Tsagklis

Ilias is a software developer turned online entrepreneur. He is co-founder and Executive Editor at Java Code Geeks.
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