Canvas

                         

As the name indicates a Canvas is a region where you can draw things such as circles, triangles, ovals or any other shape. Basically it is a graphical component that represents a region. It has got a default method which is paint() method. Canvas class can be sub classed to override this default method to define your own components as shown below in the example. 

<<<<<<< canvas.Shtml

 

 

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import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
 
public class MyCanvas extends Applet { 
  public MyCanvas() { 
      setSize(80, 40); 
  } 
  public void paint(Graphics g) { 
  g.drawRect(0, 0, 90, 50);  
    g.drawString("A Canvas", 15,15); 
  } 
} 

Here is the Output:

C:\newprgrm>javac MyCanvas.java

C:\newprgrm>appletviewer MyCanvas.html

 

 

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