Re: Has working with raster graphics always been this complicated?
jsalzman@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I'm not new to programming, but I'm new to Java, at least as far as
programming an entire applet. I'm familiar with looking through a
language's API to learn more about developing an application using
available methods. I've done it plenty of times.
When I learn a new programming language, I do it by having a goal in
mind. Something that I want to program to achieve a task. in doing so,
I develop an understanding of the language.
I just can't, for the life of me, figure out how to manipulate raster
images the way I want. I find references to Image objects, Graphics
objects, BufferedImage objects and such. You can do things with Image
objects that you can't do with Graphics objects. There's plenty of
online help for Java, but help through API docs and tutorials don't
seem to spell out many details. There seems to be more useful
tutorials, describing the theory behind an API call, for Visual Basic
than Java out there.
This isn't anything I'm really familiar with myself. I've done some basic
programming with the Graphics2D object, images and transforms etc. but not a
lot. I don't know if these links are of any use to you, they are some I filed
away for myself, if you haven't looked through them yet they could provide some
insight:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/2d/index.html
http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~hall/java/Java2D-Tutorial.html
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