Hi Paul,
> getImage is getting called and not returning. But...you identified
> the problem. The display is not mapped to the screen. I want to take
> the image and display it on my own panel (which implements drag and
> drop)...I discovered it is much easer to display an image on a panel
> that's DnD enabled than to retrofit the VisAD stuff to support DnD. So
> my idea was to make my DisplayImplJ2D d, get the image, pass it to my
> panel without actually adding d.getComponent() to the screen. So now
> I've traded one problem for another. Some days, that's progress :)
Perhaps you need to construct a DisplayImplJ2D for off-screen
rendering. The constructor is:
public DisplayImplJ2D(String name, int width, int height)
See visad/examples/Test52.java for an example of calling
getImage() for an off-screen DisplayImplJ2D.
Cheers,
Bill
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