You can now download early access versions of 1.4 beta 3 from the Java
Developer's Connection:
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4/
Some interesting changes in this release include:
- performance improvements to scaling and compositing VRAM images
(including VolatileImage, transparently accelerated offscreens
and toolkit images)
- support for the 25-bit transparent image format that is returned
by GC.createCompatibleImage()
- on-screen compositing on Linux
and lots of bug fixes (notably the fixes to the Polygon rendering that were
mentioned a couple of weeks ago).
There may be some problems with offscreen images on Linux and some
Solaris framebuffers. The workaround is to use a flag to turn off
support for pixmaps (-Dsun.java2d.pmoffscreen=false) but that is a
drastic solution. This will be fixed in RC1...
...jim
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