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Drawing Shapes

• paintIcon method receives graphics context of type Graphics
• Actually a Graphics2D object in modern Java versions
  

  public void paintIcon(Component c, Graphics g, int x, int y)
  
  {
  
     Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
  
     . . .
  
  }
  

• Can draw any object that implements Shape interface
  

  Shape s = . . .;
  
  g2.draw(s);
  

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