Graphics and Media

Navigate User Interface topic: Basic I/O Streams Event handling JavaBeans Canvas Graphics Drawing basic shapes Drawing complex shapes Drawing text Applets Overview User Interface Event Listeners Graphics and Media

Painting

By overriding the update(Graphics g) and paint(Graphics g) methods of an Applet (or one of it's sub-components), you can have fairly direct control over the rendering of an Applet. The Graphics object provides various primitives for working for two-dimensional graphics.