Painters

Painters are a sort of user interface delegate for drawing foregrounds and backgrounds. SwingX includes some built-in painters:

• AlphaPainter
• BusyPainter
• CapsulePainter
• CheckerboardPainter
• CompoundPainter
• GlossPainter
• ImagePainter
• MattePainter
• PinstripePainter
• RectanglePainter
• TextPainter
• URLPainter

  Java class name:AlphaPainter	SwingXBuilder node: alphaPainter
  Attribute	Expected Type
  alpha	float
  painters	ArrayList<Painter> or Painter[]
  Java class name:BusyPainter	SwingXBuilder node: busyPainter
  Attribute	Expected Type
  barLength	float
  barWidth	float
  baseColor	Color
  Java class name:CapsulePainter	SwingXBuilder node: capsulePainter
  Attribute	Expected Type
  portion	CapsulePainter.Portion
  Java class name:CheckerboardPainter	SwingXBuilder node: checkerboardPainter
  Attribute	Expected Type
  squareSize	float
  lightPaint	Color
  darkPaint	Color
  Java class name:ImagePainter	SwingXBuilder node: imagePainter
  Attribute	Expected Type
  image	BufferedImage
  url	URL
  style	AbstractAreaPainter.Style
  horizontal	AbstractLayoutPainter.HorizontalAlignment
  vertical	AbstractLayoutPainter.VerticalAlignment

  CompoundPainter, as its name indicates, is a collection of other Painters. Order is important. CompoundPainters build from back to front. Here is an example of a CompoundPainter:
  

  Code Block
  comp = swing.compoundPainter(clipPreserved:true) { rectanglePainter(borderWidth:3f, borderPaint:Color.BLACK, areaEffects:new GlowPathEffect(), roundHeight:40, roundWidth:40, insets: [3,3,3,3], paintStretched:true,style:AbstractAreaPainter.Style.FILLED, fillPaint:grad) pinstripePainter(paint:[204,0,0,36] as Color,angle:45, stripeWidth:8, spacing:8) }

   AlphaPainter is a CompoundPainter as well, adding an alpha value to a collection of Painters.