RE: State of Graphics Support in IKVM...

Hi,

We are contributing code that allows one to draw into a .NET Bitmap. It
handles only what we needed for image generation in our server application
(i.e., no support for AWT or Swing). Our application needed to draw icons,
lines, polylines, rectangles, text, etc. into a Bitmap that's later
delivered to the client as a JPEG.

Right now, I'm just trying to get some people over here to decide whether we
want/need our own copyright statement on the code.

Besides being incomplete (we implemented only what we needed), there's one
area that I'd like to revisit. We're creating a separate .NET Bitmap, but it
might be possible in some circumstances to draw directly into the Raster
that underlies a Java BufferedImage.

-- KiYun

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeroen Frijters [mailto:jeroen@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:45 AM
To: Jesse Sightler; ikvm-developers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Ikvm-developers] State of Graphics Support in IKVM...

Jesse Sightler wrote:
> I have some work going on with IKVM that will be using the 
> java.awt.Graphics and java.awt.Image classes (along with 
> associated classes in java.awt.image.*), and am curious as to 
> the current status of these.
> 
> I see that the engine reports "Image.getGraphics();" as unimplemented.
> 
> Are there any plans to support this for use with 
> BufferedImages?  I wouldn't think a lot of AWT would be 
> needed to handle basic buffered image manipulation... 

I don't have any plans to work on this, but recently KiYun Roe
contributed some enhancements to this area and those will be included in
the next release. I don't know the details of what new functionality has
been added.

Regards,
Jeroen



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