The width is always the same...  I think.

I tried walking trough hell since that absolutely new to me by adding a
Direct Color Model and have a 'nicer' gradient.
BUT I cant get the blue only color.  If I vary the numbers in the
colormodel I get green, blue and yellow, cyan....
This line does not help too    //c = ((0xff) & (byte)(Math.abs (Math.sin((y
+ height) * radianConversion)) * 255));

Jean

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/*<applet codebase="."  code="BgGradient" width=400   height=200 >
</applet>
*/

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;

public class BgGradient extends java.applet.Applet {
 Image i;
 int width = 400;
 int height = 50;
 public void init () {
   int[] pixels = new int [width * height];
   int c;
double radianConversion = (0.45*Math.PI / 180.0);
   for (int index = 0, y = 0;y < height;y++) {
     c = ((0xff) & (byte)(y* 255/(height - 1)));
     for (int x = 0;x < width;x++) {
       pixels[index++] =   ((0<<24) | 255);//((c << 24) | (c << 16) | (c <<
8) | 255);

     }
   }
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   i = createImage (new MemoryImageSource (width, height, new
DirectColorModel((255 << 16) , (255 << 8), 255,(255 << 24) ) ,pixels, 0,
width));
   setFont (new Font ("TimesRoman", Font.BOLD | Font.ITALIC, 32));
 }
 public void paint (Graphics g) {
   //setBackground(Color.black);
   g.drawImage (i, 0, 3*height, this);
   g.drawString ("JeanPierreDaviau.com", 30, 80);
 }
}