Constructor Detail

• Area

  public Area()

  Default constructor which creates an empty area.

  Since:

  1.2

• Area

  public Area​(Shape s)

  The Area class creates an area geometry from the specified Shape object. The geometry is explicitly closed, if the Shape is not already closed. The fill rule (even-odd or winding) specified by the geometry of the Shape is used to determine the resulting enclosed area.

  Parameters:

  s - the Shape from which the area is constructed

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if s is null

  Since:

  1.2

Method Detail

• add

  public void add​(Area rhs)

  Adds the shape of the specified Area to the shape of this Area. The resulting shape of this Area will include the union of both shapes, or all areas that were contained in either this or the specified Area.

       // Example:
       Area a1 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 0,8]);
       Area a2 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 8,8]);
       a1.add(a2);
  
          a1(before)     +         a2         =     a1(after)
  
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  Parameters:

  rhs - the Area to be added to the current shape

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if rhs is null

  Since:

  1.2

• subtract

  public void subtract​(Area rhs)

  Subtracts the shape of the specified Area from the shape of this Area. The resulting shape of this Area will include areas that were contained only in this Area and not in the specified Area.

       // Example:
       Area a1 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 0,8]);
       Area a2 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 8,8]);
       a1.subtract(a2);
  
          a1(before)     -         a2         =     a1(after)
  
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  Parameters:

  rhs - the Area to be subtracted from the current shape

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if rhs is null

  Since:

  1.2

• intersect

  public void intersect​(Area rhs)

  Sets the shape of this Area to the intersection of its current shape and the shape of the specified Area. The resulting shape of this Area will include only areas that were contained in both this Area and also in the specified Area.

       // Example:
       Area a1 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 0,8]);
       Area a2 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 8,8]);
       a1.intersect(a2);
  
        a1(before)   intersect     a2         =     a1(after)
  
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  Parameters:

  rhs - the Area to be intersected with this Area

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if rhs is null

  Since:

  1.2

• exclusiveOr

  public void exclusiveOr​(Area rhs)

  Sets the shape of this Area to be the combined area of its current shape and the shape of the specified Area, minus their intersection. The resulting shape of this Area will include only areas that were contained in either this Area or in the specified Area, but not in both.

       // Example:
       Area a1 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 0,8]);
       Area a2 = new Area([triangle 0,0 => 8,0 => 8,8]);
       a1.exclusiveOr(a2);
  
          a1(before)    xor        a2         =     a1(after)
  
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  Parameters:

  rhs - the Area to be exclusive ORed with this Area.

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if rhs is null

  Since:

  1.2

• reset

  public void reset()

  Removes all of the geometry from this Area and restores it to an empty area.

  Since:

  1.2

• isEmpty

  public boolean isEmpty()

  Tests whether this Area object encloses any area.

  Returns:

  true if this Area object represents an empty area; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

• isPolygonal

  public boolean isPolygonal()

  Tests whether this Area consists entirely of straight edged polygonal geometry.

  Returns:

  true if the geometry of this Area consists entirely of line segments; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

• isRectangular

  public boolean isRectangular()

  Tests whether this Area is rectangular in shape.

  Returns:

  true if the geometry of this Area is rectangular in shape; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

• isSingular

  public boolean isSingular()

  Tests whether this Area is comprised of a single closed subpath. This method returns true if the path contains 0 or 1 subpaths, or false if the path contains more than 1 subpath. The subpaths are counted by the number of SEG_MOVETO segments that appear in the path.

  Returns:

  true if the Area is comprised of a single basic geometry; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

• getBounds2D

  public Rectangle2D getBounds2D()

  Returns a high precision bounding Rectangle2D that completely encloses this Area.

  The Area class will attempt to return the tightest bounding box possible for the Shape. The bounding box will not be padded to include the control points of curves in the outline of the Shape, but should tightly fit the actual geometry of the outline itself.

  Specified by:

  getBounds2D in interface Shape

  Returns:

  the bounding Rectangle2D for the Area.

  Since:

  1.2

  See Also:

  Shape.getBounds()

• getBounds

  public Rectangle getBounds()

  Returns a bounding Rectangle that completely encloses this Area.

  The Area class will attempt to return the tightest bounding box possible for the Shape. The bounding box will not be padded to include the control points of curves in the outline of the Shape, but should tightly fit the actual geometry of the outline itself. Since the returned object represents the bounding box with integers, the bounding box can only be as tight as the nearest integer coordinates that encompass the geometry of the Shape.

  Specified by:

  getBounds in interface Shape

  Returns:

  the bounding Rectangle for the Area.

  Since:

  1.2

  See Also:

  Shape.getBounds2D()

• clone

  public Object clone()

  Returns an exact copy of this Area object.

  Overrides:

  clone in class Object

  Returns:

  Created clone object

  Since:

  1.2

  See Also:

  Cloneable

• equals

  public boolean equals​(Area other)

  Tests whether the geometries of the two Area objects are equal. This method will return false if the argument is null.

  Parameters:

  other - the Area to be compared to this Area

  Returns:

  true if the two geometries are equal; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

• transform

  public void transform​(AffineTransform t)

  Transforms the geometry of this Area using the specified AffineTransform. The geometry is transformed in place, which permanently changes the enclosed area defined by this object.

  Parameters:

  t - the transformation used to transform the area

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if t is null

  Since:

  1.2

• createTransformedArea

  public Area createTransformedArea​(AffineTransform t)

  Creates a new Area object that contains the same geometry as this Area transformed by the specified AffineTransform. This Area object is unchanged.

  Parameters:

  t - the specified AffineTransform used to transform the new Area

  Returns:

  a new Area object representing the transformed geometry.

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if t is null

  Since:

  1.2

• contains

  public boolean contains​(double x,
                          double y)

  Tests if the specified coordinates are inside the boundary of the Shape, as described by the definition of insideness.

  Specified by:

  contains in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  x - the specified X coordinate to be tested

  y - the specified Y coordinate to be tested

  Returns:

  true if the specified coordinates are inside the Shape boundary; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

• contains

  public boolean contains​(Point2D p)

  Specified by:

  contains in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  p - the specified Point2D to be tested

  Returns:

  true if the specified Point2D is inside the boundary of the Shape; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

• contains

  public boolean contains​(double x,
                          double y,
                          double w,
                          double h)

  Tests if the interior of the Shape entirely contains the specified rectangular area. All coordinates that lie inside the rectangular area must lie within the Shape for the entire rectangular area to be considered contained within the Shape.

  The Shape.contains() method allows a Shape implementation to conservatively return false when:

  • the intersect method returns true and
  • the calculations to determine whether or not the Shape entirely contains the rectangular area are prohibitively expensive.

  This means that for some Shapes this method might return false even though the Shape contains the rectangular area. The Area class performs more accurate geometric computations than most Shape objects and therefore can be used if a more precise answer is required.

  Specified by:

  contains in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  x - the X coordinate of the upper-left corner of the specified rectangular area

  y - the Y coordinate of the upper-left corner of the specified rectangular area

  w - the width of the specified rectangular area

  h - the height of the specified rectangular area

  Returns:

  true if the interior of the Shape entirely contains the specified rectangular area; false otherwise or, if the Shape contains the rectangular area and the intersects method returns true and the containment calculations would be too expensive to perform.

  Since:

  1.2

  See Also:

  Area, Shape.intersects(double, double, double, double)

• contains

  public boolean contains​(Rectangle2D r)

  Tests if the interior of the Shape entirely contains the specified Rectangle2D. The Shape.contains() method allows a Shape implementation to conservatively return false when:

  • the intersect method returns true and
  • the calculations to determine whether or not the Shape entirely contains the Rectangle2D are prohibitively expensive.

  This means that for some Shapes this method might return false even though the Shape contains the Rectangle2D. The Area class performs more accurate geometric computations than most Shape objects and therefore can be used if a more precise answer is required.

  Specified by:

  contains in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  r - The specified Rectangle2D

  Returns:

  true if the interior of the Shape entirely contains the Rectangle2D; false otherwise or, if the Shape contains the Rectangle2D and the intersects method returns true and the containment calculations would be too expensive to perform.

  Since:

  1.2

  See Also:

  Shape.contains(double, double, double, double)

• intersects

  public boolean intersects​(double x,
                            double y,
                            double w,
                            double h)

  Tests if the interior of the Shape intersects the interior of a specified rectangular area. The rectangular area is considered to intersect the Shape if any point is contained in both the interior of the Shape and the specified rectangular area.

  The Shape.intersects() method allows a Shape implementation to conservatively return true when:

  • there is a high probability that the rectangular area and the Shape intersect, but
  • the calculations to accurately determine this intersection are prohibitively expensive.

  This means that for some Shapes this method might return true even though the rectangular area does not intersect the Shape. The Area class performs more accurate computations of geometric intersection than most Shape objects and therefore can be used if a more precise answer is required.

  Specified by:

  intersects in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  x - the X coordinate of the upper-left corner of the specified rectangular area

  y - the Y coordinate of the upper-left corner of the specified rectangular area

  w - the width of the specified rectangular area

  h - the height of the specified rectangular area

  Returns:

  true if the interior of the Shape and the interior of the rectangular area intersect, or are both highly likely to intersect and intersection calculations would be too expensive to perform; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

  See Also:

  Area

• intersects

  public boolean intersects​(Rectangle2D r)

  Tests if the interior of the Shape intersects the interior of a specified Rectangle2D. The Shape.intersects() method allows a Shape implementation to conservatively return true when:

  • there is a high probability that the Rectangle2D and the Shape intersect, but
  • the calculations to accurately determine this intersection are prohibitively expensive.

  This means that for some Shapes this method might return true even though the Rectangle2D does not intersect the Shape. The Area class performs more accurate computations of geometric intersection than most Shape objects and therefore can be used if a more precise answer is required.

  Specified by:

  intersects in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  r - the specified Rectangle2D

  Returns:

  true if the interior of the Shape and the interior of the specified Rectangle2D intersect, or are both highly likely to intersect and intersection calculations would be too expensive to perform; false otherwise.

  Since:

  1.2

  See Also:

  Shape.intersects(double, double, double, double)

• getPathIterator

  public PathIterator getPathIterator​(AffineTransform at)

  Creates a PathIterator for the outline of this Area object. This Area object is unchanged.

  Specified by:

  getPathIterator in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  at - an optional AffineTransform to be applied to the coordinates as they are returned in the iteration, or null if untransformed coordinates are desired

  Returns:

  the PathIterator object that returns the geometry of the outline of this Area, one segment at a time.

  Since:

  1.2

• getPathIterator

  public PathIterator getPathIterator​(AffineTransform at,
                                      double flatness)

  Creates a PathIterator for the flattened outline of this Area object. Only uncurved path segments represented by the SEG_MOVETO, SEG_LINETO, and SEG_CLOSE point types are returned by the iterator. This Area object is unchanged.

  Specified by:

  getPathIterator in interface Shape

  Parameters:

  at - an optional AffineTransform to be applied to the coordinates as they are returned in the iteration, or null if untransformed coordinates are desired

  flatness - the maximum amount that the control points for a given curve can vary from colinear before a subdivided curve is replaced by a straight line connecting the end points

  Returns:

  the PathIterator object that returns the geometry of the outline of this Area, one segment at a time.

  Since:

  1.2