On Jan 20, 3:51 pm, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > Java is great for the cross platform experience, but you often run > into something you can't do in Java. Example: Just the other day, > someone asked about doing a NetBeans plugin to record screencasts. I > started a project like this in the past, but after realizing the > java.awt.Robot is horribly slow (it allocates a new buffer for each > grab) and has no way to record with the cursor (and even no way to > uptain the cursor such as to draw it on during post-processing), > inevitably you are going to need some JNI and that's a worse > experience than having a root canal. Perhaps that's why there is a > ratio of 100:1 between web frameworks and actual useful stand-alone > application in Java. > > /Casper
I thought screencast-o-matic was written in Java, as Tor pointed out some time ago. Does not seem to be using native calls. Does it? MM --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
