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Problem Description

How to fill colors in shapes using Applet?

Solution

Following example demonstrates how to create an applet which will have fill color in a rectangle using setColor(), fillRect() methods of Graphics class to fill color in a Rectangle.

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class fillColor extends Applet {
   public void paint(Graphics g) {
      g.drawRect(300,150,200,100);
      g.setColor(Color.yellow);   
      g.fillRect( 300,150, 200, 100 );
      g.setColor(Color.magenta);
      g.drawString("Rectangle",500,150);
   }
}

Result

The above code sample will produce the following result in a java enabled web browser.

A Rectangle with yellow color filled in it will be drawn in the browser.

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