drawString()

Re: drawString()

"Amey Samant" <ameyas7@yahoo. com> wrote in message
news:669e50b8.0 312231938.4af88 [email protected] gle.com...[color=blue]
> hi all
>
> i need to draw a string diagonally on an applet.
> the scenario is like ....
> i'm writing a game, when a player wins ....i'd like to draw string
> diagonally on the board saying XYZ wins the game or Game Over!!!
> how do i acheive this ?
> any ideas ?
>
> amey[/color]
If you just want some static text like "Game Over", make it a transparent
GIF and draw it as an Image to your game board.

Re: drawString()

[email protected] om (Amey Samant) wrote in message news:<669e50b8. 0312231938.4af8 [email protected] ogle.com>...[color=blue]
> hi all
>
> i need to draw a string diagonally on an applet.
> the scenario is like ....
> i'm writing a game, when a player wins ....i'd like to draw string
> diagonally on the board saying XYZ wins the game or Game Over!!!
> how do i acheive this ?
> any ideas ?[/color]

I know that this can be done using the Java 2D API, but I don't know
the specifics since I've never used it myself. Take a look at the
documentation:

Re: drawString()

hi Karl
thanx for the pointer :)
i went through some of 2D graphics tutorial and found the solution.
if you want you can search for "AffineTransfor m tutorial" on sun's
site.
and then check transforming Text,Images,Sha pes tutorial.
i did not understand entirely ;) (still working on it ... inner
details of AffineTransform )
neways
i wrote small test applet to see it work. i picked up bare minimum
required lines from their tutorial code.
if you are interested ... im posting the code below.
their tutorial example is just awesome & worth having a look but i
picked only minimum stuff

cheers n Merry X'mas
amey


import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.* ;
import java.awt.geom.* ;
import java.applet.*;

//<applet code=MyApplet height=300 width=400></applet>
public class MyApplet extends Applet
{
int w,h;
AffineTransform textAt,at;
Shape shape;
TextLayout textTl;

public void init()
{
setBackground(n ew Color(90,90,180 ));
at = new AffineTransform ();
textAt= new AffineTransform ();
textTl= new TextLayout("Gam e Over!!!", new Font("Helvetica ", 1, 46),
new FontRenderConte xt(null, false, false));
textAt.translat e(0, (float)textTl.g etBounds().getH eight());
shape= textTl.getOutli ne(textAt);
}
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D) g;
Dimension d = getSize();
w = d.width;
h = d.height;

at.setToIdentit y();
at.translate(w/2, h/2);
at.rotate(Math. toRadians(315)) ; //315 = -45 degrees angle as 0=360

Rectangle rect = shape.getBounds ();

at.translate(-(rect.width/2), -(rect.height/2));

g2.setStroke(ne w BasicStroke(2.0 f));
g2.transform(at );
g2.setColor(Col or.cyan);
g2.fill(shape);
g2.setColor(Col or.darkGray);
g2.draw(shape);
}
}