There is a Java Project called RouteConverter, which seems to use a similar approach. GPS Routes are shown in an embedded browser which displays Google Maps and OSM maps. If you haven't seen it, it might be worth taking a look: http://www.routeconverter.de . It works fine on Windows but it has some problems displaying maps on Linux systems.
Cheers, Rainer The idea is the following: embed a Firefox inside JOSM to display a dynamic > > > background of Yahoo images, or better, an OpenLayers canvas with many layers > (Yahoo, Osmarender, Mapnik...) > > Some time after coding the Yahoo plugin, I started investigating another > approach to the plugin, but didn't get to anywhere because of the immature > > > status of the libraries to be used. Recently, because of some problems > reported with this plugin (firefox window not closing in linux, and today > reported error with FF3), I revised the libraries to see if they are more > > > mature, and found that it may be usable [1]. There are several libraries > that can embed a browser in Java, but currently only two libraries that I > know are still supported and in development: SWT [2] and MozSwing [3]. > > > > The first one is the library used by the Eclipse project (from IBM), and is > heavily supported and developed.It supports native browsers (IE, FF, > Safari), but requires a big download per O.S. The second one is a new > > > library, still under development, but very promising. Supports only FF, but > until some patches are included in the final FF branch, a big download (a > custom XUL Runtime) is also needed. > > Anyway, I tried to create the plugin, but found a big problem: every > > > implementation uses an AWT component (heavyweight) for the browser, and so, > it does not integrate well with our Swing (lighweight) program. The current > JOSM Layer design only works with Swing components, since it provides a > > > Graphics object to paint on, but AWT components don't paint on them, they > paint directly on a native canvas. I tried to capture an image of the native > browser canvas and paint it on the Graphics object, but it is painfully > > > slow. One way I thought yesterday late was to code the browser not as a > plugin, but as a feature of JOSM itself, by adding a permanent layer below > every other layer in the MapFrame class with a JLayeredPane. However, I > > > haven't even tested if it could be done. Is the new JOSM-ng going to manage > layers the same way that current JOSM? > > Other problem I found is that the AWT/Swing browser integration requires > Java 6 in some platforms (i.e. Linux), and even some glue library in MacOs. > > > > Since I am not too skillfull with AWT/Swing problems, I'm now stuck. Has > anyone here worked with AWT/Swing integration problems? > > Regards, > Quico > >
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