Custom-paint iPhone in London

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is supposed to go here but I want to get my iPhone 5 custom-painted like how ColorWare do it but since I live in London I'm looking for somewhere in London that does this?
I'd prefer it if it's somewhere I can physically go and ask and enquire.
But anything in London is good.
Thanks,
Yousef
PS - here's some visual aid: http://www.anostyle.com/includes/images/gallery/home_1.jpg
http://uncrate.com/p/2012/10/colorware-iphone-5-xl.jpg

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Custom painting/ graphics in a panel

Ten Duke Dollars for whoever gives the best high level solution for my problem.
I'm writing a small application that displays music notation on screen and lets the user move the notes vertically to the desired locations on the staves. The user can then do various kinds of analysis on each example. The analysis stuff is done, but I'm having trouble finding an approach that will work for the graphics.
My basic approach so far is to subclass JPanel and use it to handle all the custom painting. I'm planning to add all needed JPEG's to JLabels. Some of the images (e.g. treble and bass clef images) will always be in a fixed location, while others (note images) will move vertically when the user drags them. For the lines on the staves and the measure lines, I'm planning to use g.drawLine.
The following questions occur to me:
1. How will I prevent the note images from hiding the lines? Will I need to make the images transparent GIFs or something? Or can I set some layering property in the JPanel to build up a layered drawing?
2. to detect mouse events, should I attach mouse listeners to my panel, or to each label that contains a note image? (I considered using Ellipse objects for the note heads and lines for the stems, but this will not give me a high enough quality of image.)
3. I will probably need to use absolute positioning in the panel class rather than FlowLayout or whatever, but I'm having trouble getting rid of the layout manager. Can you give me a few lines of code to do this?
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The following questions occur to me:
1. How will I prevent the note images from hiding the
lines? Will I need to make the images transparent GIFs
or something? Or can I set some layering property in
the JPanel to build up a layered drawing?If you are going to use images (probably BufferedImages), their Transparency will probably be BITMASK or TRANSLUSCENT.
2. to detect mouse events, should I attach mouse
listeners to my panel, or to each label that contains
a note image? (I considered using Ellipse objects for
the note heads and lines for the stems, but this will
not give me a high enough quality of image.)I don't think using JLabel objects is a good idea. Instead of add labels to a panel, I would define a custom JComponent that did its own painting in paintComponent.
>
3. I will probably need to use absolute positioning in
the panel class rather than FlowLayout or whatever,
but I'm having trouble getting rid of the layout
manager. Can you give me a few lines of code to do
this?If you follow my last comment, your component isn't being used as a container, so this is not relevant.
>
4. Is my overall approach correct? Is there a better,
easier way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?
thanks,
EricCheck out forum Java 2D. That's where this topic belongs. You also need to learn the 2D API. Search for some text book references in that forum.
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import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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import java.util.Hashtable;
import java.util.Enumeration;
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I wrote the map view for a commercial GIS system. Drawing and scaling on a JPanel is challenging, but it need not be complex.
1. To eliminate class coupling, you need to create a couple of interfaces: Renderable (what you want drawn) and Renderer (the thing doing the low-level drawing). Renderer will have before and after setup and reset methods (to do things like scaling and rotation), and methods that the renderables can use to draw graphics. The Renderable interface can be as simple as a single method: draw(Renderer).
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Dear Tom,
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     public void paintComponent( Graphics g ) {
          super.paintComponent(g);
          // As a test. This shows up fine.
          g.setColor( Color.black );
          g.fillRect(10,10,100,100);
          g.setColor( Color.white );
          g.drawString("Main",45,55);
class rightGUI extends JPanel {
     BufferedImage img = null;
     int currentLevel = 0;
     int currentScore = 0;
     int currentLines = 0;
     public rightGUI() {
          // The right panel. Has quite a few bits. Starts here..
          FlowLayout flow = new FlowLayout();
          flow.setVgap( 20 );
          setLayout( flow );
          setPreferredSize( new Dimension( 125, 500 ) );
          setBackground( new Color(27,34,97) );
          setBorder( BorderFactory.createMatteBorder(0,2,0,0,Color.black) );
          // Next block bit
          JPanel rightNext = new JPanel();
          rightNext.setPreferredSize( new Dimension( 100, 100 ) );
          //rightNext.setBackground( new Color(130,136,189) );
          rightNext.setOpaque( false );
          rightNext.setBorder( BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder(EtchedBorder.LOWERED) );
          Font rightFont = new Font( "Courier", Font.BOLD, 18 );
          // The player's playing details
          JLabel rightLevel = new JLabel("Level: " + currentLevel, JLabel.LEFT );
          rightLevel.setFont( rightFont );
          rightLevel.setForeground( Color.white );
          JLabel rightScore = new JLabel("Score: " + currentScore, JLabel.LEFT );
          rightScore.setFont( rightFont );
          rightScore.setForeground( Color.white );
          JLabel rightLines = new JLabel("Lines: " + currentLines, JLabel.LEFT );
          rightLines.setFont( rightFont );
          rightLines.setForeground( Color.white );
          JPanel margin = new JPanel();
          margin.setPreferredSize( new Dimension( 100, 50 ) );
          margin.setBackground( new Color(27,34,97) );
          JButton rightPause = new JButton("Pause");
          try {
              img = ImageIO.read(new File("MadeBy.gif"));
          catch (IOException e) { }
          add( rightNext );
          add( rightLevel );
          add( rightScore );
          add( rightLines );
          add( margin );
          add( rightPause );
          validate();
     public Dimension getPreferredSize() {
               return new Dimension( 125, 500 );
     public void paintComponent( Graphics g ) {
          super.paintComponent(g);
          g.setColor( Color.black );
          g.drawString( "blah", 425, 475 ); // Doesn't show up
          g.drawImage( img, 400, 400, null ); // Nor this!
          System.out.println( "This bit gets called fine" );
}Any help would be greatly appreciated. I've read loads of swing and custom painting tutorials and code samples but am still running into problems.
Thanks,
Tristan Perry

Many thanks for reminding me about the error catching - I've added a System.out.println() call now. Anywhoo, the catch block never gets run; the image get call works fine.
My problem was/is:
"My problem is that the custom painting works fine on the mainGUI() class, but not on the rightGUI() class. My code is below:"
I guess I should have expanded on that. Basically whatever I try to output in the public void paintComponent( Graphics g ) method of the rightGUI class doesn't get output.
So this doesn't output anything:
g.drawString( "blah", 425, 475 ); // Doesn't show up
g.drawImage( img, 400, 400, null ); // Nor this!
I've checked and experimented with setOpaque(false), however this doesn't seem to be caused by any over-lapping JPanels or anything.
Let me know if I can expand on this :)
Many thanks,
Tristan Perry
Edited by: TristanPerry on Dec 10, 2009 8:40 AM

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