Re: Fading effect

From:
"Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Sun, 22 Jul 2007 05:52:22 GMT
Message-ID:
<7589eabcd3b94@uwe>
lando wrote:

Andrew Thompson ha scritto:

...

...have you tried Knute's code?)


 Knute's code works very fine as application ,this is why I'm trying
to do an applet version,...without results.


Aaaah.. I had not realised Knute posted an application version.

My web page >>>> http://digilander.libero.it/landodgl/Fadera.html


Un-huhh.. Seeing the File objects still in the code, I
skipped the web page - it would not work.

Here is my variant of (your version of) Knute's code.
<http://www.physci.org/test/applet/slideshow/>
the altered code is linked from the page.

A couple of notes.
- I added status bar messages to tell the user when
images were loaded, but it is criminally slow here
(takes around 2 minutes to load those 4 smallish
images I used), so better feedback would be good.
- The code uses ImageIO, which I would probably do
for applications, but applets do have convenience methods
for loading images that date back to Java 1.1* - it might
be worth using applet methods for getting images in
this applet.
- The original code called System.exit(1) on error,
but an applet is prevented from doing that - that part
should also be changed - but I forgot to change it
(sue me).

* AlphaComposite was introduced in 1.2 (AFAIR), so that
would peg the minimum Java for this applet at Java 1.2.

HTH

--
Andrew Thompson
http://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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