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Drawing a pentagon
Hello!
I am in my final year of High School so my knowledge about Java is fairly limited. I do not need the following for a school project, I am busy developing a program that will make use of a pentagon.
I already have the coordinates (x ; y) of the pentagon, I just need an example of how to plot the coordinates and draw the pentagon in Java.
Thank you for your help.
Regards
Zomosa
Re: Drawing a pentagon
Check out the Polygon class and the Graphics class. The API is your best friend: Java Platform SE 6
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Re: Drawing a pentagon
I was afraid someone was going to link me to Java Documents. We never did the Graphics class nor any basic shape drawing due to our limited syllabus, nonetheless I will try...
Polygon(int[] xpoints, int[] ypoints, int npoints) - Can the xpoints and ypoints be declared as Double?
Re: Drawing a pentagon
You've never worked with the Graphics class at all? How have you done your drawing previously?Originally Posted by Zomosa
What happened when you tried?
Note that using the Polygon class is just one way to do it. You could just use drawLine() instead, if you wanted to stick with something a bit easier to understand.
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Re: Drawing a pentagon
Yes, we have not. Basically we did input from user, Graphical User Interface, arrays, matrices, write and read to and from a file, loops and array of objects.
I googled and got some notes on StdDraw.java. They do not say what to import though, do you perhaps know? I should be able to figure it out from there, there is a few examples.
It looks like this : StdDraw.line(0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 0.0);
Re: Drawing a pentagon
I don't know what StdDraw is. I'd recommend you read through this instead: Lesson: Performing Custom Painting (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing)
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Re: Drawing a pentagon
Thank you. I will work through that.
Re: Drawing a pentagon
No problem. Let us know how it goes.
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