And 1.4 is a dud! Bugggggggeeeeeee.
On Sat, 2002-04-27 at 21:36, Glen Stampoultzis wrote:
> 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]
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> > >D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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