All Known Subinterfaces:

GlyphPaper.GlyphPaperType, PaperType2D, PaperType3D

All Known Implementing Classes:

CompositePaperType2D, MonoPaperType, OverPaperType2D, PaintPaperType, PaintPaperType2D, PixelStackPaperType3D, RgbPaperType, RgbPaperType2D, RgbPaperType3D, SortedPaperType3D, ZBufferPaperType3D
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public interface PaperType
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Abstracts the graphic substrate that datasets can be plotted on. Painting operations are performed on a supplied Paper object that must be of the type appropriate to this PaperType. Geometry-specific sub-interfaces provide more specific painting operations.

Since:

14 Feb 2013

Author:

Mark Taylor

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`javax.swing.Icon`	`createDataIcon(Surface surface, Drawing[] drawings, java.lang.Object[] plans, DataStore dataStore, boolean requireCached)`	Paints the content of a list of drawing objects onto a given plot surface, and returns the result as an Icon.
`boolean`	`isBitmap()`	Indicates whether this represents a bitmap or vector type of graphics context.
`void`	`placeDecal(Paper paper, Decal decal)`	Paints a Decal onto a given paper object.

- Method Detail
  - isBitmap
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boolean isBitmap()
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    Indicates whether this represents a bitmap or vector type of graphics context.
    
    Returns:
    
    true for pixellated surface, false for vector
  - createDataIcon
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@Slow
javax.swing.Icon createDataIcon(Surface surface,
                                Drawing[] drawings,
                                java.lang.Object[] plans,
                                DataStore dataStore,
                                boolean requireCached)
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    Paints the content of a list of drawing objects onto a given plot surface, and returns the result as an Icon.
    The requireCached argument provides a hint about whether the output icon will cache computations. Set this true if you might want to paint the returned icon multiple times, false if it is one-shot only, or if keeping the memory footprint small is more important than speed.
    In general it's OK to call the paintIcon method of the returned object with a null Component. The returned icon is the size of the plotBounds rectangle, and will be painted at plotBounds.x, plotBounds.y. It contains everything in that region except perhaps for decorations, and it is opaque. It does not (cannot) contain external axis labels, but must contain any internal markings which appear underneath the data points.
    An implementation will usually create a Paper object and pass it in turn to the supplied drawings so that the returned icon can be based on the drawn-on paper.
    
    Parameters:
    
    surface - plot surface
    
    drawings - array of drawing objects to be painted in sequence
    
    plans - array of plan objects corresponding to the drawings array argument
    
    dataStore - data storage object
    
    requireCached - hint about whether to cache the calculation data
    
    Returns:
    
    plotBounds-sized icon
  - placeDecal
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void placeDecal(Paper paper,
                Decal decal)
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    Paints a Decal onto a given paper object.
    
    Parameters:
    
    paper - graphics destination, of appropriate type for this object
    
    decal - graphic to paint

Interface PaperType

Method Summary

Method Detail

isBitmap

createDataIcon

placeDecal