Re: Can One Clip to a Box while Drawing on a <JPanel>?

From:
 Daniel Pitts <googlegroupie@coloraura.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:31:42 -0000
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<1185813102.680295.260750@z24g2000prh.googlegroups.com>
On Jul 30, 8:29 am, kvnsm...@hotmail.com wrote:

Is there some way to draw on a <JPanel> or write a <String> to it in
such a way that only the portion of what I'm drawing or writing that
takes place inside a box gets shown? I'd like to have three windows
show up in my <JPanel>, and I'd like to draw things to them, but it's
possible that the things I'm drawing to them might extend beyond one
such window's boundaries and I don't want that to happen. For ex-
ample, if I'm drawing "the sky is blue" to one such window and the
lower part of that string would end up outside the window's bounda-
ries, then I only want the top part of each character to be drawn.

                                ---Kevin Simonson

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if you don't believe there's a way."
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There are two ways to do this, but the best way would be to have each
of your "boxes" be individual components, such as JComponent.

Alternatively, you can use Graphics.setClip(), but its definitely
better to go the JComponent approach.

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