If you've ever looked at Windows Media Player or other apps that use skins
in this way, you may have been impressed. I'm wondering how to do such a
thing in Java. Specifically, how would I draw some arbitrarily-shaped
object to the screen and then populate it with controls.
Most immediately, how does one paint a non-rectangular JWindow to the
screen. I looked at JWindow because it doesn't have all the adornments of
JFrame. I got as far as Container.paint() and figured I'd ask the question
before going much further.
Secondly, is it possible to obtain a Graphics object for the screen and use
it to render graphics? I played around with GraphicsEnvironment,
GraphicsDevice, and BufferedImage and got nowhere. Is it possible to get a
valid Graphics context NOT as an argument to some paint() method? I know
about BufferedImage.createGraphics() but when I used it the clipping
rectangle was null.
Thirdly, what books are available for advanced Java graphics?
TIA,
rand
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Rand Clark
Software Design Engineer
Transoft Networks
a Hewlett-Packard company
805.883.4315
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