Java and hardware graphics acceleration

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#21

[quote] Yes, I can see that it might matter for a huge animated GIF, but I bet it would solve more problems than it caused if image loading was simply not asynchronous.
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Those apis were developed a long, long time ago (in a galaxy far, far away).

Also, there are advantages to async image loading, for cases when you load your images from a url on a remote server - you don’t want your call blocked. Or, imagine some service which generates gif frames (like a streaming movie). A sync call will never be complete.

So, obviously, for backward compatibility reasons, the imageio based implementation will have to be async.

Then, there’s my favorite ImageProducer/Consumer stuff. Don’t get me started…

But I agree, I’d very much like to see toolkit image loading to be implemented on top of imageio. For one, it’ll support more image formats, less code to support, etc.

#22

Are the 2 always going to be seperate though?

I realy don’t see the logic in having Image loading methods in java.awt.Toolkit, javax.imageio.ImageIO, java.awt.Component, etc etc etc etc.

Why not have a class that encapsulates all ‘loading of Images from datasource’, rather than half a dozen methods, liberally spread among totally unrelated classes across the entire AWT :-/
At the moment, the API looks like Images in AWT were an afterthought :-/

ah the confession :stuck_out_tongue:
AWT was designed by chimps, who were miles-away at the time.

#23

[quote] I realy don’t see the logic in having Image loading methods in java.awt.Toolkit, javax.imageio.ImageIO, java.awt.Component, etc etc etc etc.
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Neither do I, but we can’t remove Toolkit/Component ones for obvious compatibility reasons. All we can do is implement them using imageio, and encourage people to use imageio directly…

#24

I’d be great to see them deprecated in 1.5…1.6 :stuck_out_tongue:

#25

[quote]Swapping in general really hurts Java performance and it absolutely kills it dead under Winblows.
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;D When I first read that I thought it was a typo, but Jeff isn’t usually that far off, he usually has the correct letters but in the wrong order…