I've been looking all over the internet for a tutorial that makes transparent diamonds, and I just can't find one. I could maybe put one together myself, but first I would need to find a working transparency tutorial for java. Most of them use a bunch of libraries I have never heard of, so they won't compile on my system.
So, does the standard jvm library come with some transparency library or something?
Also I found some paint Demo tutorial, but it says the api is depreciated? Is the Canvas depreciated? How can I make my applications use stuff that is current to Java 6 and above?