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17/**
18 * @author Alexey A. Petrenko
19 * @version $Revision$
20 */
21
22package java.awt;
23
24import java.awt.geom.AffineTransform;
25import java.awt.geom.Rectangle2D;
26import java.awt.image.ColorModel;
27
28/**
29 * The Paint interface provides possibility of generating color patterns in
30 * device space for fill, draw, or stroke operations in a Graphics2D.
31 *
32 * @since Android 1.0
33 */
34public interface Paint extends Transparency {
35
36    /**
37     * Creates the PaintContext which is used to generate color patterns for
38     * rendering operations of Graphics2D.
39     *
40     * @param cm
41     *            the ColorModel object, or null.
42     * @param deviceBounds
43     *            the Rectangle represents the bounding box of device space for
44     *            the graphics rendering operations.
45     * @param userBounds
46     *            the Rectangle represents bounding box of user space for the
47     *            graphics rendering operations.
48     * @param xform
49     *            the AffineTransform for translation from user space to device
50     *            space.
51     * @param hints
52     *            the RenderingHints preferences.
53     * @return the PaintContext for generating color patterns.
54     */
55    PaintContext createContext(ColorModel cm, Rectangle deviceBounds, Rectangle2D userBounds,
56            AffineTransform xform, RenderingHints hints);
57}
58