I’m obviously no professional when it comes to copyright questions. But talking to many people about current issues, I’ve noticed that by reading lots about it and clicking around in Wikipedia copyright/license discussions, I’ve picked up this and that.
Naturally, I’m always wondering how “normal people” and non-IT people see current copyright. When I was driving [...]
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If you want transparency in your custom components, take a look at the AlphaComposite class and the Graphics2D setComposite(Composite) method. It’s sexy™.
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There are two things I want to say about this shot.
1. Antialiasing
Antialiasing in your custom components can be achieved quite easily. I found this code when I was trying to find out how to rotate a String:
RenderingHints renderHints = new RenderingHints(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
renderHints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_FRACTIONALMETRICS, RenderingHints.VALUE_FRACTIONALMETRICS_ON);
renderHints.put(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
((Graphics2D)g).setRenderingHints(renderHints);
Quite easy, isn’t it? After [...]
