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Asynchronous interfaces are method calls such as * getWidth(ImageObserver) and drawImage(img, x, y, ImageObserver) * which take an ImageObserver object as an argument. Those methods * register the caller as interested either in information about * the overall image itself (in the case of getWidth(ImageObserver)) * or about an output version of an image (in the case of the * drawImage(img, x, y, [w, h,] ImageObserver) call). * * <p>This method * should return true if further updates are needed or false if the * required information has been acquired. The image which was being * tracked is passed in using the img argument. Various constants * are combined to form the infoflags argument which indicates what * information about the image is now available. The interpretation * of the x, y, width, and height arguments depends on the contents * of the infoflags argument. * <p> * The {@code infoflags} argument should be the bitwise inclusive * <b>OR</b> of the following flags: {@code WIDTH}, * {@code HEIGHT}, {@code PROPERTIES}, {@code SOMEBITS}, * {@code FRAMEBITS}, {@code ALLBITS}, {@code ERROR}, * {@code ABORT}. * * @param img the image being observed. * @param infoflags the bitwise inclusive OR of the following * flags: {@code WIDTH}, {@code HEIGHT}, * {@code PROPERTIES}, {@code SOMEBITS}, * {@code FRAMEBITS}, {@code ALLBITS}, * {@code ERROR}, {@code ABORT}. * @param x the <i>x</i> coordinate. * @param y the <i>y</i> coordinate. * @param width the width. * @param height the height. * @return {@code false} if the infoflags indicate that the * image is completely loaded; {@code true} otherwise. * * @see #WIDTH * @see #HEIGHT * @see #PROPERTIES * @see #SOMEBITS * @see #FRAMEBITS * @see #ALLBITS * @see #ERROR * @see #ABORT * @see Image#getWidth * @see Image#getHeight * @see java.awt.Graphics#drawImage */ public boolean imageUpdate(Image img, int infoflags, int x, int y, int width, int height); /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * the width of the base image is now available and can be taken * from the width argument to the imageUpdate callback method. * @see Image#getWidth * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int WIDTH = 1; /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * the height of the base image is now available and can be taken * from the height argument to the imageUpdate callback method. * @see Image#getHeight * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int HEIGHT = 2; /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * the properties of the image are now available. * @see Image#getProperty * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int PROPERTIES = 4; /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * more pixels needed for drawing a scaled variation of the image * are available. The bounding box of the new pixels can be taken * from the x, y, width, and height arguments to the imageUpdate * callback method. * @see java.awt.Graphics#drawImage * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int SOMEBITS = 8; /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * another complete frame of a multi-frame image which was previously * drawn is now available to be drawn again. The x, y, width, and height * arguments to the imageUpdate callback method should be ignored. * @see java.awt.Graphics#drawImage * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int FRAMEBITS = 16; /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * a static image which was previously drawn is now complete and can * be drawn again in its final form. The x, y, width, and height * arguments to the imageUpdate callback method should be ignored. * @see java.awt.Graphics#drawImage * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int ALLBITS = 32; /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * an image which was being tracked asynchronously has encountered * an error. No further information will become available and * drawing the image will fail. * As a convenience, the ABORT flag will be indicated at the same * time to indicate that the image production was aborted. * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int ERROR = 64; /** * This flag in the infoflags argument to imageUpdate indicates that * an image which was being tracked asynchronously was aborted before * production was complete. No more information will become available * without further action to trigger another image production sequence. * If the ERROR flag was not also set in this image update, then * accessing any of the data in the image will restart the production * again, probably from the beginning. * @see #imageUpdate */ public static final int ABORT = 128; }