Is this the right place to ask this question? Unless my concerns are misguided, is seems that a public API is needed to replace uses of the internal API.
Alan > Begin forwarded message: > > From: Alan Snyder <javali...@cbfiddle.com> > Subject: <AWT Dev> creating images using native code > Date: August 11, 2015 at 5:36:55 PM PDT > To: awt-dev@openjdk.java.net > > I am currently creating images with data provided by native code by capturing > the data in an int array then using that array to construct a DataBufferInt > which is used to create a WritableRaster which is used to create a > BufferedImage. > > That seems to work fine, except that looking at the code it appears that the > buffer is considered untrackable, which sounds like a bad thing. Does that in > fact prevent caching the image in a GPU, for example? > > If so, is there a good way to create a cacheable image? > > The solutions I have found so far all wind up processing the pixels one at a > time at some point, as far as I can tell, which should not be necessary. > > I’m wondering why there is no way to simply declare that the buffer will not > change in the future. > > Alan >
