Crosshairs in Java

Question

I am making a game that needs a crosshair. I have been playing with the java.awt.cursor class and that is easy enough, but the problem is that I do not want the crosshairs to be able to leave the window I create for my game, so I tried this instead:

  private void drawCrossHair(Graphics g){
    Ellipse2D ellipse = new Ellipse2D.Float();
    ellipse.setFrame(crossHair.x, crossHair.y, 36, 36);
    Color yellow = new Color (0xEDFF62);
    g.setColor(yellow);            
    g.fillOval(crossHair.x, crossHair.y, 40, 40);
    g.setClip(ellipse);
    g.clip(ellipse);

Basically I am trying to remove the "ellipse" from "g" leaving only a small ring behind. The problem here is that "g.clip(ellipse);" gives me an error. My objective with this code is to create a circle with a transparent center, like a donut. Once the donut is created I will add some small points on the inside of it so it looks more like crosshairs. One thing that may or may not be an issue is that I plan on moving the crosshairs with a joystick, not a mouse... I do not know if that will limit my options for what kind of object my crosshairs can be.

EDIT:

Here is a SSCCE version (well almost... does not compile due to "g2 = bf.getDrawGraphics()")

package game;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Toolkit;
import java.awt.image.BufferStrategy;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.awt.geom.Ellipse2D;

public class Game extends JFrame {

    private int windowWidth = 1280;
    private int windowHeight = 1024;
        private Ball crossHair;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Game();
    }
    public Game() {
        this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        this.setSize(windowWidth, windowHeight);
        this.setResizable(false);
        this.setLocation(0,0);
        this.setVisible(true);
        this.createBufferStrategy(2);
        initGame();
        gameLoop();
    }
    private void initGame() {
            crossHair = new Ball (windowWidth/2, windowHeight/2, 3, 3);
    }

        private void gameLoop() {
            //game logic
            drawFrame();              
        }

        private void drawFrame() {

            //Setting up Double Buffering
            BufferStrategy bf = this.getBufferStrategy();
            Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)bf.getDrawGraphics();

            try {
                g2 = bf.getDrawGraphics();
                Color darkBlue = new Color(0x010040);

                g2.setColor(darkBlue);
                g2.fillRect(0, 0, windowWidth, windowHeight);

                drawCrossHair(g2);
            } finally {
                // dispose of graphic.
                g2.dispose();
            }

            // show contents of backbuffer on screen
            bf.show();

            Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().sync();
        }

        private void drawCrossHair(Graphics2D g2){
            Color yellow = new Color (0xEDFF62);
            g2.setColor(yellow);            
            g2.fillOval(crossHair.x, crossHair.y, 40, 40);
            Ellipse2D ellipse = new Ellipse2D.Float();
            ellipse.setFrame(crossHair.x, crossHair.y, 36, 36);
            g2.setClip(ellipse);
            g2.clip(ellipse);
        }  
}

And here is another class in the same package:

package game;

public class Ball {
    public int x;
    public int y;
    public int dx;
    public int dy;

    public Ball(int x, int y, int dx, int dy) {
        this.x = x;
        this.y = y;
        this.dx = dx;
        this.dy = dy;
    }
}

EDIT 2:

Here is my latest attempt, this seems to work ok... please let me know if this is bad coding (I got the idea here):

private void drawCrossHair(Graphics g){
    Color yellow = new Color (0xEDFF62);
    g.setColor(yellow);
    for (int i = 0; i < 1; i++) {
    g.drawOval(crosshair.x + i, crosshair.y + i, 40 - i - i, 40 - i - i);
    }
    g.fillArc(crosshair.x + 10, crosshair.y + 21 , 20, 20, -45, -90);
    g.fillArc(crosshair.x - 1, crosshair.y + 10, 20, 20, -135, -90);
    g.fillArc(crosshair.x + 10, crosshair.y - 1, 20, 20, -225, -90);
    g.fillArc(crosshair.x + 21, crosshair.y + 10, 20, 20, -315, -90);
}

Answer 1

What kind of error?

A compilation error I'm thinking because Graphics doesn't have a clip method. Graphics2D does.

You can draw a donut shape just with an ellipse and a stroke size < radius.

g.setStroke(new BasicStroke(2.0f));
g.drawOval(crossHair.x, crossHair.y, 40, 40);

Answer 2

but the problem is that I do not want the crosshairs to be able to leave the window I create for my game,

It doesn't. The cursor gets reset when the mouse moves off the frame or component.

Again, post your SSCCE showing the problem.