FYI, I tried to get Swing components able to drop into Pivot apps back in the day via a SwingAdapter component. It *almost* worked :)
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:46 PM, Greg Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Good question. I neglected to mention in my previous post there is >> currently no way to embed Swing components in a Pivot app. However, you >> might be able to wrap a JTextPane in a custom Pivot component and delegate >> paint() calls to it. Alternatively, there may be some lower-level Swing text >> rendering APIs you could delegate to and bypass JTextPane altogether. >> > > OK, one last (probably obvious) question: Why might flying saucer work > better with Pivot? I assume that it is not based on Swing? Does it use SWT > or something else that plays well with Pivot? Again, I apologize for the > basic questions, I have almost no Java GUI experience. > > > Like Swing, Pivot uses Java2D for rendering. However, Pivot doesn't doesn't > depend on or extend Swing, so it's not especially straightforward to drop a > Swing component into a Pivot app. I haven't looked into Flying Saucer in any > great detail, but I imagine that it renders directly to Java2D, which would > make it a lot easier to embed in a Pivot app. We did something similar with > JFreeChart: > > http://code.google.com/p/pivot-jfree/ > > We can't include JFreeChart in the Pivot distribution for the same reason > we can't have a dependency on Flying Saucer. However, it would be possible > to write a bridge library to Flying Saucer similar to what we did for > JFreeChart...that is definitely worth considering. > > G > > >
