M. Rohrmoser wrote: > I'm currently thinking about how to do graphics with an performant, > easy-to-use and moderately platform neutral way. > > Maybe it's time to drop the java2d layer and target OpenGL directly? > OpenGL seems to be widely available - and JOGL even is integrated with > JDK 1.6. > > But a simple scenegraph API is highly desireable - and P2D is the > simplest I've seen so far. > > And which is the best candidate for the underlying renderer? OpenGL? > OpenGL ES? Is there such a thing as JOGL-ES? OpenVG sadly seems to be > irrelevant (no implementations available). > > The longer I think about it, the more I'd love to see a SVG-IO enabled, > OpenGL (ES) backed, /simple/ 2D scenegraph API. > > Or is in times of 3D-, shadow- and highlighting-effects on buttons etc. > OpenGL the inevitable choice anyhow? But I don't like the idea to use > blender for GUI design - I'd very much prefer a SVG editor like inkscape. > > What do you think about that? Is it sensible to push P2D in that direction? > > M > > P.S.: I had a brief look into some APIs but didn't see something as > simple as P2D. Check out those Webstart demos: > > http://slick.cokeandcode.com/static.php?page=demos > http://slick.cokeandcode.com/thingle/ > http://www.fenggui.org/doku.php#misc > > http://www.lwjgl.org/demos.php > > http://www.jmonkeyengine.com/movies_demos.php > > https://jogl-demos.dev.java.net/
Let me add Processing to this list http://dev.processing.org/reference/core/ They have multiple implementations of their PGraphics API. I wrote a hack to use Piccolo2D in Processing, but it requires using the Java2D implementation of PGraphics. It would be nice to have a portable version of Piccolo2D's scenegraph. michael --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Piccolo2D Developers Group: http://groups.google.com/group/piccolo2d-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
