Wanting to change colour of my pen in java

Question

I have created an Etch A Sketch sort of program using Java. Now I am wanting to change the colour of the shapes and lines that I draw. I am struggling with how to do this. This is as far as I have got at the moment Any help would be mostly appreciated.

        else if (String1.equalsIgnoreCase("red"))
        {

            set.PenColor(Color.RED);    

        }

With this code I get the; set. cannot be resolved AND the method setColor is undefined Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you are using plain awt - Graphics class has a method (setColor) to set the color to be used.

JavaDoc for Graphics .

This graphics object should be used in paint methods then.