Draw figure without stroke?

I want to draw a shape (rectangle) without any stroke. I tried creating a BasicStroke with zero width, but this did not work. The reason was confirmed in this passage from the docs:
"If width is set to 0.0f, the stroke is rendered as the thinnest possible line for the target device and the antialias hint setting."
So a line is still drawn on my screen.
For now I will just draw the stroke in the same color as the fill so it will not show, but would like to have a better solution.
Thanks,
Steve C.

Try this....
graphics.setColor(Color.red);
graphics.fill(rectangle);Thats all I do... use the graphics.draw(rectangle) if you want the stroke

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