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Re: Terminology

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In article <knpsa79aju8ob5str836u8cekoih2ba6h3@4ax.com>,
 Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> wrote:

> When you paint a JPanel with a paintComponent what do you call the
> area of RAM you paint on, the thing that the Graphics object points
> to?  In AWT you might call it the canvas. In DOS days you would have
> called it the REGEN.

The API uses the term "graphics context" for the parameter g, a 
reference to an object having methods that can modify the pixels of an 
output device or memory region. I would hesitate to say that it "points 
to" an area of RAM. Rather, it offers a pixel-oriented abstraction of 
the various ColorModel and SampleModel types encountered on disparate 
implementations.

<http://download.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Graphics.html>
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel>

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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