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Instances of SynthPainter are obtained from the javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthStyle.getPainter method.

You typically supply a SynthPainter by way of Synth's file format. The following example registers a painter for all JButtons that will render the image myImage.png:

 <style id="buttonStyle">
 <imagePainter path="myImage.png" sourceInsets="2 2 2 2"
 paintCenter="true" stretch="true"/>
 <insets top="2" bottom="2" left="2" right="2"/>
 </style>
 <bind style="buttonStyle" type="REGION" key="button"/>
 

SynthPainter is abstract in so far as it does no painting, all the methods are empty. While none of these methods are typed to throw an exception, subclasses can assume that valid arguments are passed in, and if not they can throw a NullPointerException or IllegalArgumentException in response to invalid arguments.
version:
   1.19, 05/05/07
since:
   1.5
author:
   Scott Violet