Drawing lines with mouse on canvas : Java awt

Question

The attempt is to enable drawing of figures(a line for now) with mouse on the awt canvas . Iam trying out java graphics for the first time . So not sure how to go about it .

Answer 1

Make use of Line2D object in the AWT package and do the following steps:

1. Create mouse (X,Y) values for first and second clicks
2. Create a boolean variable to check if the click is the first or the second
3. Make a List container to contain your Line2D objects
4. Draw them in your Can object
5. Assign the before and after (X,Y) values through the mouse listener's event

The step number 5 could be achieved through:

1. e.getX()
2. e.getY()

Where e is the mouse event and could be accesed through the parameter of the mouse listener method.