001/* PaintContext.java -- the environment for performing a paint operation 002 Copyright (C) 2000, 2002 Free Software Foundation 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package java.awt; 040 041import java.awt.image.ColorModel; 042import java.awt.image.Raster; 043 044/** 045 * @author Warren Levy (warrenl@cygnus.com) 046 * @see Paint 047 * @since 1.1 048 * @status updated to 1.4 049 */ 050public interface PaintContext 051{ 052 /** 053 * Release the resources allocated for the paint. 054 */ 055 void dispose(); 056 057 /** 058 * Return the color model of this context. It may be different from the 059 * hint specified during createContext, as not all contexts can generate 060 * color patterns in an arbitrary model. 061 * 062 * @return the context color model 063 */ 064 ColorModel getColorModel(); 065 066 /** 067 * Return a raster containing the colors for the graphics operation. 068 * 069 * @param x the x-coordinate, in device space 070 * @param y the y-coordinate, in device space 071 * @param w the width, in device space 072 * @param h the height, in device space 073 * @return a raster for the given area and color 074 */ 075 Raster getRaster(int x, int y, int w, int h); 076} // interface PaintContext