How do I set the R, G, B and Alpha components of a color?

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Illep picture Illep · Jul 18, 2011 · Viewed 53.6k times · Source

There are 3 integer values that makes up a RGB value, and also i have the Alpha component value of the color. how do i set these 4 values to get the desired colour

Answer

dacwe picture dacwe · Jul 18, 2011

You can create a Color object (the values should either be ints between 0-255 or floats between 0f-1f:

Color c = new Color(red, green, blue, alpha);

If you want to paint an image with that color:

BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(300, 200, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
Graphics graphics = image.getGraphics(); 
graphics.setColor(c);
graphics.fillRect(50, 50, 100, 100);
graphics.dispose();

If you only want to set a pixel (color model must be ARGB):

image.setRGB(50, 50, c.getRGB());

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