Hi Sergey, > Well during draw of the image we should request appropriate scale image from > the user, who possible know better how its image can be scaled. > What can be better, than a method which "Creates a scaled version of this > image."?
getScaledImage() returns a scaled "reference" (not a copy) of the original image. So when the original image is changed, the scaled instance has to change too. When this is overriden like you suggest, this changes semantics of the API. In case getScaledInstance() is not overridden, the user is stuck with non-accelerated blits. Chris has written a nice blog post about getScaledImage() and why it should be avoided: https://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2007/04/03/perils-of-image-getscaledinstance.html Regards, Clemens
