Is it OK to use sun.awt.geom.Curve methods?

Java 2D
#1

Hi,

I’ve made my own high-performance 2D polygon class that extends Shape and to find out if a point is contained within it I use the sun.awt.geom.Curve method:

public static int crossingsForPath(PathIterator pi, double x, double y) . You can see the Curve class at:

http://jsourcery.com/output/sun/j2se/j2sdk/1.4.2_04/sun/awt/geom/Curve.html

I only found that this class existed when using the profiler (-Xprof). Is it OK to directly reference this method in my own code or is it not platform-portable??? Why can’t it be found in the API documentation?

Thanks,
Keith

#2

Its an internal implementation class and hence not safe to use since it could change from version to version of VM.

Kev

#3

Thanks Kev, In that case I’ll just cut and paste those Curve methods into my own class.

Keith

#4

This is not allowed at all, it’s SUN’s source and well, simply take it wont make it :wink:

lg Clemens

#5

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.