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Im trying to figure out how you can determine the colour of a pixel in the buffer of a JPanel.
Jeff Albertson
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You can't do that easily. Usually, to get a pixel valuem, one is buffering in a java.awt.image.BufferedImage and uses its getRGB method. You can scrape pixels off the screen, but that be nasty.
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Jonathan Steel
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Thanks for the reply.
I guess ill have to go the back buffer route then. I had hoped i could circumvent that option because Im trying to make a 4K game and this approach is sure to eat up some precious bytes.
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Another approach could be to "calculate" the pixel from the application state of your program. For example, if I were writing a chess game, given a (x,y) location I would check if the location was on the board or not; if on the chess board, if there was a piece on that square; if there was a piece, take the piece's image...
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Gotcha. I cant take that route though because Im actually using the buffer to store the information about my game world. Strange, I know. Im doing this because there will be debris all over the screen not very easily represented by any data structures due to the operations ill be performing on them. I want to know the colour of a pixel to use for collision detection.
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