That's correct, however 1.4 has headless support which lets you do this sort of thing without loading X libs.
-- Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 10:20 PM Subject: Re: HPSF - Summary Information - getThumbnail() > I'll -1 anything that has java.awt in it unless someone definatively > proves that it will not load X libraries. (So far from what I've seen > its the linkage to awt not an actual call that causes X libraries to be > loaded). > > Rainer Klute wrote: > > >>>I think the return type of this as a convenience method ought to be a > >>>java.awt.Image. Maybe one version returns a byte array and one returns an > >>> > >>-1 - this ties us to X-Windows on servers and limits our crossplatform > >>nature and his performance heavy. Leave this to the API user to > >>tradeoff (ties to awt or not). > >> > > > >Definitely not. A java.awt.Image instance is just data. It ties us > >to nothing except Java. See also my other post. > > > >Best regards > >Rainer Klute > > > > Rainer Klute IT-Consulting GmbH i. Gr. > > Dipl.-Inform. > > Rainer Klute E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > K�rner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824 > >D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423 > > > > > > >
