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Sascha,
Is there any way to implement this that would work on both UNIX and Windows, but not require 3d hardware which OpenGL seems to... I'm guessing probably not. Looks like 2 days Sun and SGI decided to create standard Java bindings for OpenGL, http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/july/sgisun_opengl.html.
Dear classpath developers,
I took over the development of Agile2D, a package implementing Graphics2D in OpenGL using gl4java. Agile2d has been implemented originaly by Jon Meyer for Ben Bederson, director of the Human Computer Interaction Lab. at the University of Maryland. Agile2d is available at http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/agile2d and, until the new version is available there, at my local page http://www.lri.fr/~fekete/agile2d and it is distributed under the Apache licence (it can change).
Having seen the announcement of Sgi and Sun, I think I will migrate Agile2D to the new Java binding.
It would be a shame to duplicate the effort so I am willing to help and provide all the information you would need to achieve a free port of Graphics2D based on OpenGL and, of course, the code too.
Keep in mind that there are currently more platform supporting OpenGL than Java so OpenGL is really a garantee of portability, compared to the mess of having different ports for X11 graphics, Windows graphics, Mac graphics and others to come. There is still a little bit of platform dependent code required to access OpenGL from these platform.
As for Font rendering, I have implemented FreeType font rendering for OpenGL and there is a library made by Stephane Conversy called glft that can be used too (see the svgl project at http://www.lri.fr/~conversy/svgl/).
I hope we can collaborate on providing a good and fast, free implementation of Graphics2D.
Best regards,
-- Jean-Daniel Fekete [EMAIL PROTECTED] INRIA Futurs, LRI tel: +33 1 69156623 Bat 490, Universit� Paris-Sud fax: +33 1 69156586 F91405 ORSAY Cedex, France
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