I think it is doable, but you have to get in there and do some work.
For example, you can create an offscreen graphics for a buffered image
to draw upon. Thus, you should be able to draw the components onto the
offscreen graphic and use it to texture. When a user clicks on the 3D
object, use the picking routines to figure out where on the object the
pick occurred, convert that to the coordinates of the offscreen graphic,
and then send an event to the correct component. After that, redraw the
scene onto the offscreen graphic and reapply the texture.
I do this sort of thing with text displays. I would think it would be
not too far fetched to tell a JButton that it's parent is something
derived from a BufferedImage.
I personally just model 3D buttons, sliders, and text displays to make
3D GUIs, complete with the ability to attach listeners.
-Lee
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yazel, David J. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 10:02 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [JAVA3D] How can I project a Swing components onto a J3D
> surf ace?
>
>
> I have heard this request before, but I can't even picture
> what this means.
> Do you mean to put a button or some other Swing component
> actually in the 3d
> scene? or do you mean you are placing the component in the same Swing
> container, with the canvas3d underneath the component?
>
> Because you can do neither of these things to my knowledge. Swing is
> lightweight and java3d is heavyweight. The closest I have
> come is to put
> swing components in JWindow's and float them above the
> canvas. You can, of
> course, build swing apps where the swing controls to the
> left, right, above
> or below the canvas and that will work. For some things I
> find I have to
> trap the AWT events in the canvas3d and send them back to the
> top of my
> Swing hierarchy to be processed properly (i.e. keystroke events).
>
> Dave Yazel
>
> > ----------
> > From: Stefan Bühlmann[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Reply To: Discussion list for Java 3D API
> > Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 4:41 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: [JAVA3D] How can I project a Swing components
> onto a J3D
> > surface?
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > does anyone know a simple way, to project Swing components
> onto the =
> > surface of a J3D object, such that the mouse is correctly passed =
> > through? E.g. Clicking the mouse clicks on the swing buttons.
> >
> > Thanks for any help, Stefan
> >
> >
>
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