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Re: java.awt.Polygon extends Rectangle??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Wed Jan 17 01:32:34 1996
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: grege@optimation.com.au (Greg Ewing)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 21:01:24 -0800 (PST)
Cc: java-interest@webrunner.neato.org (java)
In-Reply-To: <9601170134.AA00806@thredbo.optimation.com.au> from "Greg Ewing" at Jan 17, 96 12:34:44 pm
Hi Greg,
> > >From: Maria Winslow <winslow@cs.unc.edu>
> >
> > In the API, java.awt.Polygon claims to extend Object, but
> > surely it must extend Rectangle. Does anyone happen to know
> > for sure? Thanks.
> >
> > mw
>
> Unfortunately this is the case (Polygon inheriting from Object).
> One would have hoped that all shape classes like this would
> descend from a common ancestor such as GeometricFigure or Shape.
>
> The AWT is full of annoying things such as allowing one to pass a
> Polygon object as an argument to Graphics.drawPolygon(Polygon p)
> but not providing the means to pass a Rectangle/Arc to drawRect()/
> drawArc(). Another one is giving Point and Rectangle translate/move
> functionality, but not providing this to Polygon.
Please make a list of things you'd like to see changed and
send it to Amy Moore (aim@eng.sun.com).
Have fun,
Arthur van Hoff (avh@eng.sun.com)
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