I'm back to dabbling with Java3D after several months of doing other stuff.
In the past, I never really understood what made the Canvas3D stick to the
JPanel.contentPane, I just got it working and used the same code for all
subsequent projects. This time I attempted to start from scratch and
organize things. I spent a good 2 hours trying to figure out how to get the
thing to stay together. I finally came up with the following little ansatz:
/**
Wrap up the Canvas3D in a JPanel with the Canvas3D in the CENTER of the
BorderLayout.
*/
public static JPanel createUniversePanel() {
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
Canvas3D canvas
= new Canvas3D(SimpleUniverse.getPreferredConfiguration());
panel.add(canvas);
SimpleUniverse universe = new GSJCubeUniverse(canvas);
return panel;
}
I've found several little anoyances similar to this in the Java3D SDK. I'm
not skilled enough to fix this problem in the SDK, or I would have a go at
doing so. If this package has a maintainer, perhaps he could look into
making the basic display component behave a bit more like its related Java
cousins.
Little things like this probably prevent many programmers from really taking
to Java3D.
Steven
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