Pascal,
Aside from two lines being a heck of a lot easier to read and code,
using TextureLoader also assures that the image loaded is properly
scaled to a size that is a power of two.
- John Wright
Starfire Research
Pascal Vuylsteker wrote:
>
> When reading Sun tutorial, you often have the feeling that if you want
> to use Java3D, then you absolutely need the com.sun.j3d.utils. So why on
> earth aren't these classes in the official Java3D API ?
> Looks like there is nothing useful for the developer in that API ;-)
>
> How could we be sure that those external packages (com.sun...) will be
> available in all the Java3D implementations (the MacOSX one for
> instance, or the next releases) ?
>
> On the other hand do we really need them ?
> For instance what is the use of that
> com.sun.j3d.utils.image.TextureLoader when it's look like all what we
> need to get a javax.media.j3d.ImageComponent2D object (needed to create
> a Texture object) is a buffered image which can be get by the usual
> Toolkit method
>
> Toolkit tk = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
>
> img = tk.getImage("AnyImage.gif");
>
> try {
> MediaTracker tracker = new MediaTracker(this);
> tracker.addImage(img, 0);
> tracker.waitForID(0);
> }
> catch ( Exception e ) {}
>
> ImageComponent2D image = new
> ImageComponent2D(ImageComponent2D.FORMAT_RGB, img);
>
> So, does anybody understand the interest of the following code proposed
> in the tutorial ?
>
> TextureLoader loader = new TextureLoader("stripe.jpg", this);
> ImageComponent2D image = loader.getImage();
>
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>
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