Setting Color Using Int Variables

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I'm trying to set the color using three integer values for R, G, and B stored in three int type variables (these values are randomly generated between 0 and 255).

Previously we set the color (e.g. yellow) using g.setColor(Color.YELLOW).

I'm unsure of how to do this. The course is online, and I've read the text section multiple times.
 

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Look at the API documentation for whatever class is the object g belongs to. There will be a number of overloaded methods, call called setColor, but which accept different arguments. One of them may accept a Color object, and that should prompt you to look at the documentation of the Color class. You will find that you can construct a Color object with three arguments, red, green, and blue.

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Hmmm... I've looked around the API and can't seem to find the code needed to set the color using RGB values.

Knew I shouldn't have taken an online class... :mad:
 
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Color.html

You are looking for this constructor:
Color(float r, float g, float b)
 
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