[piccolo2d-dev] Re: Issue 152 in piccolo2d: Refactor PPath to use Path2D on JDK 1.6+

2010-07-21 Thread piccolo2d
Comment #6 on issue 152 by samrreid: Refactor PPath to use Path2D on JDK 1.6+ http://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/issues/detail?id=152 I wonder how that might be possible . . . Path2D is a class added to the JDK in 1.6. As mentioned in comment 4, this could be done by dynamically checking

[piccolo2d-dev] Re: changes to PPath, add PShape and PArea

2010-07-21 Thread cmal...@pixelzoom.com
Mac users are only 14% of PhET users; 83% are Windows. 80% of PhET's Mac users are on Intel, but most are running Mac OS 10.5. Mac OS 10.6 is the first version to install Java 1.6 as the default (and only) Java version. Mac OS 10.5 has both Java 1.5 and 1.6 installed, but Java 1.5 is the default

[piccolo2d-dev] Re: Issue 152 in piccolo2d: Refactor PPath to use Path2D on JDK 1.6+

2010-07-21 Thread piccolo2d
Comment #5 on issue 152 by heue...@gmail.com: Refactor PPath to use Path2D on JDK 1.6+ http://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/issues/detail?id=152 I wonder how that might be possible . . . Path2D is a class added to the JDK in 1.6. Perhaps we could create a dependency on that class compiled

Re: [piccolo2d-dev] Re: changes to PPath, add PShape and PArea

2010-07-21 Thread Michael Heuer
cmal...@pixelzoom.com wrote: > PhET's customers are the educational market, which typically lags > behind the technology curve.  We only recently changed our minimum > system requirement to include Java 1.5.  So I suspect that it will be > a long time (possibly years) before we change that requir

[piccolo2d-dev] Re: Issue 153 in piccolo2d: PArea, a wrapper for java.awt.geom.Area to allow Constructive Area Geometry (CAG) operations

2010-07-21 Thread piccolo2d
Comment #3 on issue 153 by mr0...@mro.name: PArea, a wrapper for java.awt.geom.Area to allow Constructive Area Geometry (CAG) operations http://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/issues/detail?id=153 concerning jdk 1.5 compatibility see also issue#152 -- Piccolo2D Developers Group: http://groups.go

[piccolo2d-dev] Re: Issue 152 in piccolo2d: Refactor PPath to use Path2D on JDK 1.6+

2010-07-21 Thread piccolo2d
Comment #4 on issue 152 by mr0...@mro.name: Refactor PPath to use Path2D on JDK 1.6+ http://code.google.com/p/piccolo2d/issues/detail?id=152 I do agree with Chris http://groups.google.com/group/piccolo2d-dev/msg/2944bdf8a13ebcfa Could we do both - add the 1.6 features and still remain 1.5