image from canvas

[Harish Kashyap]

hi friends
i wanna generate an image of wat i draw on a canvas.
i.e.
i wanna draw some picture using drawLine,drawOval and other similar methods. and i wanna pick whatever is drawn on canvas as an image. can anybody help me doing this.what r the ways of doing this.
thanx
harish

[Sean MacLean]

If you want to save it as an image to disk, this package should give you a head start.
http://www.acme.com/
or http://www.acme.com/java/software/Acme.JPM.Encoders.GifEncoder.html
to be specific.
You'll have extract the image from the canvas' graphics object however (or use the ImageProducer constructor in the Acme package). Still a bit tricky, though.
Sean