java.awt

Interface Shape

All Known Implementing Classes:

Polygon, Rectangle

public interface Shape

The Shape interface provides definitions for objects that represent some form of geometric shape.

Definition of insideness: A point is considered to lie inside a Shape if and only if:

• it lies completely inside theShape boundary or
• it lies exactly on the Shape boundary and the space immediately adjacent to the point in the increasing X direction is entirely inside the boundary or
• it lies exactly on a horizontal boundary segment and the space immediately adjacent to the point in the increasing Y direction is inside the boundary.

The contains and intersects methods consider the interior of a Shape to be the area it encloses as if it were filled. This means that these methods consider unclosed shapes to be implicitly closed for the purpose of determining if a shape contains or intersects a rectangle or if a shape contains a point.

Version:

1.19 06/24/98

Author:

Jim Graham

See Also:

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Rectangle	getBounds() Returns an integer Rectangle that completely encloses the Shape.

Method Detail

getBounds

Rectangle getBounds()

Returns an integer Rectangle that completely encloses the Shape. Note that there is no guarantee that the returned Rectangle is the smallest bounding box that encloses the Shape, only that the Shape lies entirely within the indicated Rectangle. The returned Rectangle might also fail to completely enclose the Shape if the Shape overflows the limited range of the integer data type.

Returns:

an integer Rectangle that completely encloses the Shape.