Corevisions wrote:
> I just read the TGUIGroup Wiki page and realized that people are (better
> "were" .. last statement was on Jan99) talking about data formats that
> should be used in JOS ...
> My opinion about this is that something super-level app should care
> about formats not the apps themselves ... propably this could be the job
> of JADE ??! ...
> It should support as most picture,sound,font,movie (or whatever) formats
> as possible ..
> a jos app should call a method in jade to load a pic for example and
> jade cares about the format and looks up in a table if any
> codes/format-loader-classed are available and returns the pic in a java
> class ... so apps would be independant of file formats ... like MS who
> "invented" the MediaPlayer2 (in fact they reinvented it ! .. the amiga
> had a mechanism called Datatypes and through a special library you were
> able to load a pic and get a bitmap of it ..)
>
> I would really like to know your opinions about this because it could
> make developing really easy ...
firstly I cant see how that would fall to JADE (or even JOS for that
matter--it should be a JOS Library); JADE is after all just a liaison
between the user and the OS...
JMF (JavaMediaFramework) has something like this (for media only), JAF
(JActivationF) has something kinda like this but for a different use
(but I think it should be from the same place...) and I tried tackling
this problem myself (with an uberversion of the HotJava content
handlers) although I eventually moved on, I could send what I did to you
if you want.
Cheers,
DigiGod
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