gdk-pixbuf has been successfully wrapped, and it now functions as an
ImageProducer. We can load any image format that gdk-pixbuf supports
-- bmp, gif, jpeg, png, pnm, ras, tiff, and xpm. All of these formats
can be incrementally loaded (except for PNG, which is due to a buggy
loader in gdk-pixbuf).
I can now get SwingSet past the progress bar/loading window, but from
there things pretty much fall apart. I ran into a really weird
situation where Java was creating a Canvas and assigning its parent to
a LightweightPeer (which makes no sense to me). If anyone could
enlighten me on the details of how/why that happens, I'd love to know.
Here's a picture of the pre-6.1 Shadow Man in an applet:
<URL:http://people.redhat.com/pnfisher/classpath-gdk-pixbuf.png>
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Paul Fisher
