SWING - PaintEvent Class


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Introduction

The Class PaintEvent used to ensure that paint/update method calls are serialized along with the other events delivered from the event queue

Class declaration

Following is the declaration for java.awt.event.PaintEvent class:

public class PaintEvent
   extends ComponentEvent

Field

Following are the fields for java.awt.Component class:

  • static int PAINT -- The paint event type.

  • static int PAINT_FIRST -- Marks the first integer id for the range of paint event ids.

  • static int PAINT_LAST -- Marks the last integer id for the range of paint event ids.

  • static int UPDATE -- The update event type.

Class constructors

S.N. Constructor & Description
1 PaintEvent(Component source, int id, Rectangle updateRect)

Constructs a PaintEvent object with the specified source component and type.

Class methods

S.N. Method & Description
1 Rectangle getUpdateRect()

Returns the rectangle representing the area which needs to be repainted in response to this event.

2 String paramString()

Returns a parameter string identifying this event.

3 void setUpdateRect(Rectangle updateRect)

Sets the rectangle representing the area which needs to be repainted in response to this event.

Methods inherited

This class inherits methods from the following classes:

  • java.awt.ComponentEvent

  • java.awt.AWTEvent

  • java.util.EventObject

  • java.lang.Object


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