Uses of Interface
com.codename1.ui.Painter

Packages that use Painter

Package	Description
com.codename1.ui	Main widget package containing the component/container "composite" similar both in terminology and design to Swing/AWT.
com.codename1.ui.animations	All components are animatable by potential and additional animations (unrelated to a specific component) can be installed on the fly, transitions between forms are also handled as part of this package.
com.codename1.ui.painter	Painter allows us to draw arbitrary elements of graphics from plain/scaled/tiled images to gradients and pretty much any form of graphic drawing we can imagine.
com.codename1.ui.plaf	Look of the application can be fully customized via this package, it represents a rendering layer that can be plugged in separately in runtime and themed to provide any custom look.
com.codename1.ui.util	Utility features that are either too domain specific or don't "fit" into any other packages including the Resource file format loading API.

Uses of Painter in com.codename1.ui

Methods in com.codename1.ui that return Painter

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Painter	Form.getGlassPane() Allows a developer that doesn't derive from the form to draw on top of the form regardless of underlying changes or animations.

Methods in com.codename1.ui with parameters of type Painter

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
ComponentSelector	ComponentSelector.setBgPainter(Painter bgPainter) Wraps Style.setBgPainter(com.codename1.ui.Painter)
void	Form.setGlassPane(Painter glassPane) Allows a developer that doesn't derive from the form to draw on top of the form regardless of underlying changes or animations.

Uses of Painter in com.codename1.ui.animations

Classes in com.codename1.ui.animations that implement Painter

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	Timeline A timeline represents the motions of animation objects

Uses of Painter in com.codename1.ui.painter

Classes in com.codename1.ui.painter that implement Painter

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	BackgroundPainter A painter that draws the background of a component based on its style
class	PainterChain A painter chain allows us to chain together several painters to provide a "layer" effect where each painter only draws one element.

Methods in com.codename1.ui.painter that return Painter

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Painter[]	PainterChain.getChain() Allows us to traverse the painter chain

Methods in com.codename1.ui.painter with parameters of type Painter

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
PainterChain	PainterChain.addPainter(Painter p) Creates a new chain based on the existing chain with the new element added at the end
static void	PainterChain.installGlassPane(Form f, Painter p) Installs a glass pane on the given form making sure to make it a painter chain only if required by existing painter
PainterChain	PainterChain.prependPainter(Painter p) Creates a new chain based on the existing chain with the new element added at the beginning
static void	PainterChain.removeGlassPane(Form f, Painter p) Removes a glass pane from the given form, this is the opposite operation for the install glass pane

Constructors in com.codename1.ui.painter with parameters of type Painter

Constructor and Description
PainterChain(Painter painter) Create a new painter chain which will paint all of the elements in the chain in sequence from 0 to the last element
PainterChain(Painter[] chain) Create a new painter chain which will paint all of the elements in the chain in sequence from 0 to the last element

Uses of Painter in com.codename1.ui.plaf

Methods in com.codename1.ui.plaf that return Painter

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Painter	Style.getBgPainter() Return the background painter for this style, normally this would be the internal image/color painter but can be user defined

Methods in com.codename1.ui.plaf with parameters of type Painter

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	Style.setBgPainter(Painter bgPainter) Defines the background painter for this style, normally this would be the internal image/color painter but can be user defined

Uses of Painter in com.codename1.ui.util

Classes in com.codename1.ui.util that implement Painter

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
class	GlassTutorial Deprecated. interaction dialog is a superior way for displaying these types of tutorials