Thread: Java importing to JFrame get pixel color

i made this code where you get the pixel color number where ever the mouse is moving the problem is i want it to show up in a jframe and make the JFrame background change color according to the pixel color. For example if the mouse was on white it would print out 255,255,255 and i would like it to show on the Jfream red=255,blue=255,green=255 and then get the background to change white. Could someone help me out and point me to the right direction new to java.

[code = java]


<
import java.awt.MouseInfo;
import java.awt.Point;
import java.awt.PointerInfo;
import java.awt.Robot;

public class PixelColor {
public static void main(String[] args) throws AWTException {
PointerInfo pointer;
pointer = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo();
Point coord = pointer.getLocation();

Robot robot = new Robot();
robot.delay(2000);


while(true)
{
pointer = MouseInfo.getPointerInfo();
coord = pointer.getLocation();

System.out.println(" color: " + robot.getPixelColor(coord.x, coord.y).getRed() +
", " + robot.getPixelColor(coord.x, coord.y).getGreen() +
", " + robot.getPixelColor(coord.x, coord.y).getBlue());
}










}
}
>
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thanks and the problem is i know how to create jframe and all
all i want is to show what my code prints out in the Jframe

The frame is displayed and updated using the Swing library of Java. Oracle's Tutorial has a long section on Swing. Google will suggest any number of other tutorials ... of differing quality. Oracle's is well written and tested by much experience, but it is long and aims at being quite comprehensive which is something, as a beginner, you may not really want.

Don't be afraid to step back from the problem as you have posed it and begin with smaller steps. How to create and display a frame? How to add a component of some sort to the frame? How to change the colour of that component from time to time programatically (ie by an instruction in your code)?

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One point to notice is that when you use Swing the program logic changes in a fundamental way. You no longer use a while(true) loop in the main() method. Rather the main() method causes the gui to be constructed and shown and that's it. The main() method is, by design, rather small and ends quickly. Moreover a while(true) loop would hog the cpu and that's exactly what you don't want in a responsive gui.

In addition to frames and components as mentioned above, Swing gives you a couple of ways to avoid the while(true) loop. The first is to detect mouse movements (but only over your frame). Using this approach your application will be told when the mouse moves and you can do your stuff with the robot to determine the pixel colour and update the colour of the component in the frame. This sort of thing is called "event handling" and is fundemental to gui programming. You can probably think of the other events that you can organise to be told about (mouse clicked, key pressed, window minimised, etc...)

The other way of overcoming the while(true) loop is to use a Timer. Timers cause events to happen, but they aren't event associated with the mouse moving or anything else. They are just events that happen at some periodic rate. So you would use a timer so that your program could be "woken up" and respond 20 times a second, say, and, at that point do your thing with the robot.

(This second point is something of a digression from where you are now. But I mention it because while(true) loops are a common design flaw when people begin to write Swing programs. And because a brief google reveals that many "intro to Swing" tutorials focus on components and don't necessarily highlight the fact that a timer is available: at some point "Swing Timer" becomes a good thing to google for.)

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[Edit] Didn't see the previous post. If you are happy with creating a gui, then start there and not the main() you posted originally. Have a look at the link to how to use timers.

thanks a lot i think i got it