Yes. Eagerly awaiting 1.4.whatever. It's a shame they decided to completely break backward compatability with things like focus support.
-- Glen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "POI Development" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 28, 2002 12:06 PM Subject: Re: HPSF - Summary Information - getThumbnail() 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] > > > K�rner Grund 24 Telefon: +49 172 2324824 > > >D-44143 Dortmund Telefax: +49 231 5349423 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- 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
