Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Documentation on comments

Are you a Java programmer? yes, then the below snippet of code would fully illustrate how documentation comments are created and the required parameters for that.

/**
* Graphics is the abstract base class for all graphics contexts
* which allow an application to draw onto components realized on
* various devices or onto off-screen images.
* A Graphics object encapsulates the state information needed
* for the various rendering operations that Java supports. This
* state information includes:
*

    *
  • The Component to draw on
    *
  • A translation origin for rendering and clipping coordinates
    *
  • The current clip
    *
  • The current color
    *
  • The current font
    *
  • The current logical pixel operation function (XOR or Paint)
    *
  • The current XOR alternation color
    * (see setXORMode)
    *

*


* Coordinates are infinitely thin and lie between the pixels of the
* output device.
* Operations which draw the outline of a figure operate by traversing
* along the infinitely thin path with a pixel-sized pen that hangs
* down and to the right of the anchor point on the path.
* Operations which fill a figure operate by filling the interior
* of the infinitely thin path.
* Operations which render horizontal text render the ascending
* portion of the characters entirely above the baseline coordinate.
*


* Some important points to consider are that drawing a figure that
* covers a given rectangle will occupy one extra row of pixels on
* the right and bottom edges compared to filling a figure that is
* bounded by that same rectangle.
* Also, drawing a horizontal line along the same y coordinate as
* the baseline of a line of text will draw the line entirely below
* the text except for any descenders.
* Both of these properties are due to the pen hanging down and to
* the right from the path that it traverses.
*


* All coordinates which appear as arguments to the methods of this
* Graphics object are considered relative to the translation origin
* of this Graphics object prior to the invocation of the method.
* All rendering operations modify only pixels which lie within the
* area bounded by both the current clip of the graphics context
* and the extents of the Component used to create the Graphics object.
*
*

@author Sami Shaio
* @author Arthur van Hoff
*

@version %I%, %G%
*

@since 1.0
*/
public abstract class Graphics {

/**
* Draws as much of the specified image as is currently available
* with its northwest corner at the specified coordinate (x, y).
* This method will return immediately in all cases, even if the
* entire image has not yet been scaled, dithered and converted
* for the current output device.
*


* If the current output representation is not yet complete then
* the method will return false and the indicated
* {@link ImageObserver} object will be notified as the
* conversion process progresses.
*
*

@param img the image to be drawn
* @param x the x-coordinate of the northwest corner
* of the destination rectangle in pixels
* @param y the y-coordinate of the northwest corner
* of the destination rectangle in pixels
* @param observer the image observer to be notified as more
* of the image is converted. May be
* null
*

@return true if the image is completely
* loaded and was painted successfully;
* false otherwise.
*

@see Image
* @see ImageObserver
*

@since 1.0
*/
public abstract boolean drawImage(Image img, int x, int y,
ImageObserver observer);


/**
* Dispose of the system resources used by this graphics context.
* The Graphics context cannot be used after being disposed of.
* While the finalization process of the garbage collector will
* also dispose of the same system resources, due to the number
* of Graphics objects that can be created in short time frames
* it is preferable to manually free the associated resources
* using this method rather than to rely on a finalization
* process which may not happen for a long period of time.
*


* Graphics objects which are provided as arguments to the paint
* and update methods of Components are automatically disposed
* by the system when those methods return. Programmers should,
* for efficiency, call the dispose method when finished using
* a Graphics object only if it was created directly from a
* Component or another Graphics object.
*
* @see #create(int, int, int, int)
* @see #finalize()
* @see Component#getGraphics()
* @see Component#paint(Graphics)
* @see Component#update(Graphics)
* @since 1.0
*/
public abstract void dispose();

/**
* Disposes of this graphics context once it is no longer
* referenced.
*
* @see #dispose()
* @since 1.0
*/
public void finalize() {
dispose();
}
}

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