On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 13:53, Drew Varner wrote: > I think in 1.4 the implementation is headless, but I am not sure. I agree as > well. Maybe I can do byte array to image conversion as example code. >
Our target is officially 1.22 for the moment. Honestly, we really don't test on 1.22 very often (I don't have it installed), but that's a Cocoon requirement for the Serializer so I guess thats the only real rationale for 1.22 support. (unless we wanted to accommodate people using that crappy Visual Age for Java who are probably still stuck on that version, but I sure don't care ;-) they peed in their own bathwater let them swim in it :-D ) > The reason I think the code needs to be out there is thumbnails can my in > Windows Metafile format or BMP as I understand it. Therefore, the code would > insulate the user from the details. > What I'd like to see is 1> an awtless byte[] abstraction that can be easily used to create an Image 2> an extension library in contrib for those who want certain less then raw implementations. 3> if you really want to do a GUI spreadsheet program Rainer you can do it over in contrib and I won't complain. Just don't BASE it entirely on HSSF, have it read/write the gnumeric format natively. (We don't need *another* incompatible spreadsheet format ;-) ) I'll even use it to test POI with. > Regardless if AWT loads the libraries, the linkage is bad in a server > environment where the box might not have X. For applications that generate > images on the fly via Servlets, I have had to install xvfb (X Virtual Frame > Buffer) to satisfy the program. > Yeah, I just went through that recently. > I agree that it shouldn't be in Summary Information. > Cool.. So come up with a solution that lets us run nicely on servers (our #1 target) and yet provide a nice abstraction. Perhaps what you might need is a cleanroom image class. I'd not think it would be too hard. -Andy > Drew > > > Quoting Rainer Klute <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >I'll -1 anything that has java.awt in it unless someone definatively > > >proves that it will not load X libraries. (So far from what I've seen > > >its the linkage to awt not an actual call that causes X libraries to be > > > > >loaded). > > > > Okay, that's fair. > > > > Best regards > > Rainer Klute > > > > Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH i. Gr. > > Dipl.-Inform. > > Rainer Klute E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Körner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824 > > D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423 > > > > > > > > ___________________ > Drew Varner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh
