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Interface java.awt.image.ImageObserver

Implementing Classes:
Component, PeekGraphics, PeekGraphics.ImageWaiter

public interface ImageObserver
An asynchronous update interface for receiving notifications about Image information as the Image is constructed.


Field Summary
static int  ABORT
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that an image which was being tracked asynchronously was aborted before production was complete.
static int  ALLBITS
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that a static image which was previously drawn is now complete and can be drawn again in its final form.
static int  ERROR
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that an image which was being tracked asynchronously has encountered an error.
static int  FRAMEBITS
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that another complete frame of a multi-frame image which was previously drawn is now available to be drawn again.
static int  HEIGHT
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that the height of the base image is now available and can be taken from the height argument to the imageUpdate callback method.
static int  PROPERTIES
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that the properties of the image are now available.
static int  SOMEBITS
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that more pixels needed for drawing a scaled variation of the image are available.
static int  WIDTH
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that the width of the base image is now available and can be taken from the width argument to the imageUpdate callback method.
 

Method Summary
boolean  imageUpdate(Image img, int infoflags, int x, int y, int width, int height)
This method is called when information about an image which was previously requested using an asynchronous interface becomes available.
 

Field Detail

WIDTH

public static final int WIDTH
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that the width of the base image is now available and can be taken from the width argument to the imageUpdate callback method.
See Also:
getWidth, imageUpdate

HEIGHT

public static final int HEIGHT
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that the height of the base image is now available and can be taken from the height argument to the imageUpdate callback method.
See Also:
getHeight, imageUpdate

PROPERTIES

public static final int PROPERTIES
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that the properties of the image are now available.
See Also:
getProperty, imageUpdate

SOMEBITS

public static final int SOMEBITS
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that more pixels needed for drawing a scaled variation of the image are available. The bounding box of the new pixels can be taken from the x, y, width, and height arguments to the imageUpdate callback method.
See Also:
drawImage, imageUpdate

FRAMEBITS

public static final int FRAMEBITS
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that another complete frame of a multi-frame image which was previously drawn is now available to be drawn again. The x, y, width, and height arguments to the imageUpdate callback method should be ignored.
See Also:
drawImage, imageUpdate

ALLBITS

public static final int ALLBITS
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that a static image which was previously drawn is now complete and can be drawn again in its final form. The x, y, width, and height arguments to the imageUpdate callback method should be ignored.
See Also:
drawImage, imageUpdate

ERROR

public static final int ERROR
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that an image which was being tracked asynchronously has encountered an error. No further information will become available and drawing the image will fail. As a convenience, the ABORT flag will be indicated at the same time to indicate that the image production was aborted.
See Also:
imageUpdate

ABORT

public static final int ABORT
This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that an image which was being tracked asynchronously was aborted before production was complete. No more information will become available without further action to trigger another image production sequence. If the ERROR flag was not also set in this image update, then accessing any of the data in the image will restart the production again, probably from the beginning.
See Also:
imageUpdate
Method Detail

imageUpdate

public boolean imageUpdate(Image img,
                           int infoflags,
                           int x,
                           int y,
                           int width,
                           int height)
This method is called when information about an image which was previously requested using an asynchronous interface becomes available. Asynchronous interfaces are method calls such as getWidth(ImageObserver) and drawImage(img, x, y, ImageObserver) which take an ImageObserver object as an argument. Those methods register the caller as interested either in information about the overall image itself (in the case of getWidth(ImageObserver)) or about an output version of an image (in the case of the drawImage(img, x, y, [w, h,] ImageObserver) call).

This method should return true if further updates are needed or false if the required information has been acquired. The image which was being tracked is passed in using the img argument. Various constants are combined to form the infoflags argument which indicates what information about the image is now available. The interpretation of the x, y, width, and height arguments depends on the contents of the infoflags argument.

The infoflags argument should be bitwise inclusive OR of the following flags: WIDTH, HEIGHT, PROPERTIES, SOMEBITS, FRAMEBITS, ALLBITS, ERROR, ABORT.

See Also:
WIDTH, HEIGHT, PROPERTIES, SOMEBITS, FRAMEBITS, ALLBITS, ERROR, ABORT, getWidth, getHeight, drawImage

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