Amazing vector GUIs, also for Java?  
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Andreas Schmidt





PostPosted: 2003-6-28 4:22:00 Top

java-programmer, Amazing vector GUIs, also for Java? hi,

have you recently seen the GUI of Winamp3? It's amazing, it seems to be a
vector graphic. You can scale it smoothly as you want, as if the complete
GUI were a picture, all the fonts and sliders etc scale together. I heard
this is the next big thing, also for web scalable sites.

Is such a vector approach thinkable for developing with Java? Are there
libraries for vector GUIs?

Andi

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PostPosted: 2003-6-28 10:55:00 Top

java-programmer >> Amazing vector GUIs, also for Java? Jim Sculley wrote:
> Andreas Schmidt wrote:
>
>>
>> Is such a vector approach thinkable for developing with Java? Are
>> there libraries for vector GUIs?
>
>
> Well, there's Batik:
>
> http://xml.apache.org/batik/
>


That does SVG graphics.

The newer GNOME desktop can use SVG for it's icons. I know that in the
released version of its library (librsvg), the performance was seen to
be just as fast or faster than PNG.

http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/



Hmm... a quick Google search on "java svg" seems to also find


http://sis.cmis.csiro.au/svg/

http://wwws.sun.com/software/xml/developers/svg/java2d-api/