Drawing Shapes

when a certain period oi time passes without any activity on a computer, a screensaver be-

comes active and draws difieient types of geometric patterns or textual messages.

In this section we will develop an application that simulates a screensaver. We will learn a

development skill very commonly used in objectoriented programmingwhether we

develop alone or as a project team member, we often find ourselves writing a class that

needs to behave in a specific way so that it works correctly with other classes The other

classes may come trom standard Java packages or could be developed by the other team

members.

in this particular case, we use the aningBoald class (written by the author). This

isa helper class that takes care ofprogramming aspectswe have not yet mastered, such as

moving multiple geometric shapes in a smooth motion across the screen. It is not an issue

of whethei we (an develop this (lass by ourselves, bKause no matte! how good we be—

come as programmers, we would rarely develop an application completely on our own.

We already used many predefined classes from the Java standard libraries. but

the way we will use the predefined class here is different. When we developed programs

belove,the classes we wrote called the methods oi predefined classes. Oul main method

creating a GregoriinCilendil object and calling its methods is one example. Here, tor

us to use a predefined class,we must define another class that provides necessary ser-

vices to this predefined class, Figure 5.14 ditierentiates the two types ot predefined

classesThe first type does not place any restriction other than calling the methods cor-

rectly. while the second type requires us to implement helper classes in a specific manner

to support it,
in mu (use, the piedelined (lass aningBarlld will vequive anothei Class named

DrawableShape that will assume the responsibility oi drawing individual geometric

shapes. So, to use the nraiivingaoard class in our program, we must implement the class

named DrawableShape. And we must implementthe oravrablesmpe class in a specific

wayi The use of the DrawingBoald class dinatesthat we define a set of fixed methods in

the Drlwlhleshape class. We (an add more, but we must at the minimum piovide the

specified set oi fixed methods because the Drawlllgloard class will need to call these

methods, The methods ate”fixed"in the method signatuie—method name,the numbev of

parameters and theirtypes,and return type~tmt the method body can be defined in any

way we llke, This is how the flexlbility is achieved. For example, the Drawablesllipe class

we define must include a method named draw with the dictated signatuveBut it’s up to us

to decide what we put in the method body. So we can choose, for example, to implement

the method to draw a circle, rectangle, or any other geometric shape of our choosing.

As always,we will develop this program lollowing incremental development steps.

The incremental development steps we will take here are slightly difierent in character

irom those we have seen so far. In the previous incremental developments, we knew all

the ingredients,soto speak. Here we have to include a stepto explore the oreirringaoard

class. We will find out shortlythat to usethe Drawingloard class, we will have to deal with

some Java standard classes we have not seen yet. Pedagogicaliy, a textbook may try to

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such a situation in our development steps

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