On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 18:34, Drew Varner wrote: > I don't really see the purpose of reinventing the wheel on this one. I think my > answer will be: > > 1) implementing the getThumbnail() method to return byte[]. I don't think it is > implemented/supported yet. > 2) writing sample code to convert it to a java.awt.Image() > 3) maybe demonstrate writing it to a PNG or something > 4) maybe integrate a thumbnail viewer into the POIBrowser >
Anything you do to this effect will be greatfully accepted in the contrib area. We might consider creating a new category for things like this that aren't really GUI but kinda are, but aren't...etc. > Returning a java.awt.Image will work in a 1.4 environment without X > dependencies. > > java -Djava.awt.headless=true SomeJavaProgram > > executes the program without X dependencies. I'll mention this in the sample > code I write. My interest in this is using Thumbnails in a document management > sytem as a preview. > > I am not hot on implementing a non-standard image class (that couldn't subclass > java.awt.Image) just to represent a thumbnail. > > Drew > > Quoting "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > What I'd like to see is 1> an awtless byte[] abstraction that can be > > easily used to create an Image 2> an extension library in contrib for > > those who want certain less then raw implementations. > > > ... > > > > Cool.. So come up with a solution that lets us run nicely on servers > > (our #1 target) and yet provide a nice abstraction. Perhaps what you > > might need is a cleanroom image class. I'd not think it would be too > > hard. > > > > -Andy > > ___________________ > Drew Varner > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.superlinksoftware.com http://jakarta.apache.org/poi - port of Excel/Word/OLE 2 Compound Document format to java http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/bugParade/bugs/4487555.html - fix java generics! The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote. -Ambassador Kosh
