Hello Thomas,
Thank you for your reply! We are, in fact, making significant amount of
changes to our SVG document, so I think we'll go for the setSVGDocument
method.
Regards,
Rishabh
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:32 PM, <thomas.dewe...@kodak.com> wrote:
> Hi Rishabh,
>
> Rishabh Rao <rishabhs...@gmail.com> wrote on 04/25/2010 03:31:43 PM:
>
>
> > Also, guess what, we were able to update our canvas display without
> > using UpdateManager!
> >
> > Actually, in our main project, we've created a class that extends
> > SwingWorker (our backend processing is a tad bit time consuming, so
> > we're scheduling it on a SwingWorker thread.)
> >
> > So now, we've overridden the SwingWorker.done method to our advantage!
> > We're calling the JSVGCanvas object's setSVGDocument method in the
> > above done method. So we can be sure that the SVGDocument is
> > populated.
>
>
> This may be correct but given your earlier statements it seems
> likely to be very inefficient. The basic difference between using
> the UpdateManager's update thread to modify the document and calling
> 'setSVGDocument' is that calling setSVGDocument causes the canvas to
> start from scratch an totally rebuild the graphics tree and then
> render everything from scratch. However if you modify the document
> in the UpdateManager's update thread then only the portion of the
> document modified is rebuilt and rerendered.
>
> Based on this information the inefficiency of setSVGDocument
> is basically a function of how much of the document is modified.
> If you are modifying a few elements out of hundreds then calling
> setSVGDocument will be very inefficient, but if you are modifying
> most of those hundreds of elements then calling setSVGDocument
> wouldn't be too bad.
>
> > On 4/25/10, jonathan wood <jonathanshaww...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hello Rishabh, Narendra and Praveen,
> > >
> > > A couple of observations:
> > >
> > > You really have no context in which to manipulate the DOM until the
> > > document is loaded. Your best bet is to add a GVTTreeBuilderListener.
> > > Also, it is much easier to work directly with the DOM objects and let
> the
> > > GVT take care of rendering the 2D.
> > > Red the attached snippet carefully...the listener code is invoked
> after
> > > the document is loaded.
> > >
> > > private void runDemo() {
> > > svgCanvas.setDocumentState(JSVGCanvas.ALWAYS_DYNAMIC);
> > > svgCanvas.addGVTTreeBuilderListener(new GVTTreeBuilderAdapter()
> {
> > > @Override
> > > public void gvtBuildCompleted(GVTTreeBuilderEvent e) {
> > >
> > > svgCanvas.getUpdateManager().getUpdateRunnableQueue().invokeLater(new
> > > Runnable() {
> > > public void run() {
> > > Element rect =
> > > svgCanvas.getSVGDocument().createElementNS
> > (SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI,
> > > SVGConstants.SVG_RECT_TAG);
> > > rect.setAttributeNS(null,
> > > SVGConstants.SVG_X_ATTRIBUTE, "100");
> > > rect.setAttributeNS(null,
> > > SVGConstants.SVG_Y_ATTRIBUTE, "100");
> > > rect.setAttributeNS(null,
> > > SVGConstants.SVG_WIDTH_ATTRIBUTE, "100");
> > > rect.setAttributeNS(null,
> > > SVGConstants.SVG_HEIGHT_ATTRIBUTE, "100");
> > > rect.setAttributeNS(null,
> > > SVGConstants.SVG_FILL_ATTRIBUTE, "#2222ee");
> > >
> > > svgCanvas.getSVGDocument().getDocumentElement().appendChild(rect);
> > > }
> > > });
> > > }
> > > });
> > > Document doc =
> > > SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation().createDocument
> > (SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI,
> > > "svg", null);
> > > svgCanvas.setSVGDocument((SVGDocument) doc);
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:23 AM, Rishabh Rao <rishabhs...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hello!
> > >> We are a team 3 students who are developing an opensource application
> > >> called Chart Glazer. The application helps the users draw charts
> (process
> > >> diagrams, organization charts etc.) easily. It is very much similar to
> > >> Microsoft Office 2007's SmartArt.
> > >> We're using Apache Batik and Java Swing for our development. Our
> project
> > >> is
> > >> hosted at http://kenai.com/projects/chartglazer.
> > >> The FAQ at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/faq.html talks about
> using
> > >> the UpdateManager.
> > >> We are facing the exact same problem, as in section 3.3 of the FAQ,
> "When
> > >> I
> > >> change the document in Java it only updates if I move the mouse over
> the
> > >> canvas?"
> > >> We have reproduced our problem into a smaller application (called
> > >> SVGApplication), using NetBeans. It has a JButton (called
> > >> loadDocumentJButton) and a JSVGCanvas (called myJSVGCanvas) present
> inside
> > >> a
> > >> JScrollPane object.
> > >> Our requirement is that when we click this "loadDocumentJButton"
> button,
> > >> the the "myJSVGCanvas" object must display the "myRectangle" (see code
> > >> below.)
> > >> Here is the "actionPerformed" event handler for
> "loadDocumentJButton"...
> > >> private void
> loadDocumentJButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent
> > >> evt)
> > >> {
> > >> DOMImplementation myDOMImplementation =
> > >> SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation();
> > >> Document myDocument =
> > >>
> myDOMImplementation.createDocument(SVGDOMImplementation.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI,
> > >> "svg", null);
> > >> Element svgRoot = myDocument.getDocumentElement();
> > >>
> > >> SVGGraphics2D mySVGGraphics2D = new SVGGraphics2D(myDocument);
> > >> mySVGGraphics2D.setSVGCanvasSize(new Dimension(320, 240));
> > >>
> > >> myJSVGCanvas.setDocumentState(JSVGCanvas.ALWAYS_DYNAMIC);
> > >> myJSVGCanvas.setDocument(myDocument);
> > >>
> > >> Rectangle myRectangle = new Rectangle(10, 10, 60, 40);
> > >>
> > >> mySVGGraphics2D.draw(myRectangle);
> > >>
> > >> svgRoot.appendChild(mySVGGraphics2D.getRoot());
> > >> }
> > >> The rectangle is being displayed only when we move the mouse over the
> > >> "myJSVGCanvas" object in the Swing GUI window.
> > >>
> > >> We understand that we must use UpdateManager to solve this problem.
> But we
> > >> don't know how to use it. We searched a lot on the Internet and
> > >> mail-archives, but we are not able to figure things out. We did not
> find
> > >> any
> > >> example programs. If we get an example program that demonstrates the
> use
> > >> of
> > >> UpdateManager, we will figure it out on our own. It would be great if
> you
> > >> provide us with such an example program.
> > >> Please help us.
> > >> We are attaching the 3 files of "SVGApplication" (created
> usingNetBeans)
> > >> for your reference. The above event handler function is located in the
> > >> SVGView.java. Probably, the other two files will not be required; we
> have
> > >> just attached it for completeness' sake.
> > >> Thank you very much!
> > >> Regards,
> > >> Rishabh Rao, Narendra G S and Praveen K S
> > >>
> > >>
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