On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:24:40 -0500, Warren Johnson wrote:
>I have a web page that can be accessed with a browser (IE4 and Netscape)
>called Build the Snowman. On the left frame is the beginning template of
>the snowman on the right frame is stuff like clothes, hats, etc... On the
>bottom you hit a button which then calls a cgi program sitting on the Redhat
>5.2 server. In that cgi program, the image is transferred over to java to be
>merged as one picture. After that I guess it's thrown back to the cgi
>program to replace the image on the left side as the finished project.
>
>Originally this program was sitting on a SGI machine. The creator of this
>program has long left this company. And I'm new to the whole Unix arena as
>well as X-Servers, Java and CGI.
Well, the issue is that the graphics toolkit needs motif which needs
the X server (for things like image depth and format) Why there is no
easy way to do this in the default Unix JDK is beyond me, but that is
how it works.
I too noticed that doing graphics manipulation code requires an X Server
so it is hard to use Java for such things on a console-only system.
Maybe someone knows a workaround to this (or a nice trick?)
Michael Sinz -- Director of Research & Development, NextBus Inc.
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