Re: Swing Java components in ImageJ plugin frames?

Posted by dscho on May 12, 2009; 8:45am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Swing-Java-components-in-ImageJ-plugin-frames-tp3692563p3692571.html

Hi,

On Tue, 12 May 2009, Simon Andrews wrote:

> On 12 May 2009, at 09:16, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> >On Tue, 12 May 2009, Simon Andrews wrote:
> >
> > >Someone else posted a pointer to a list of workrounds for common
> > >problems, but one other option which I've used is to create a swing
> > >based version of ImageCanvas.  There are very few changes required to
> > >turn ImageCanvas into JImagePanel and then everything plays really
> > >nicely with the rest of Swing. Probably overkill in your case, but in
> > >the right situation it can be the best solution.
> >
> >Care to post your solution for the benefit of others (including me)?
>
> The code is released as part of our FocalPoint viewer:
>
> http://www.bioinformatics.bbsrc.ac.uk/projects/focalpoint/
>
> All of the image panels in the application are swing based ImageCanvas
> objects.  I've actually stripped out a lot of code in our released
> version to keep only what we use, just to make it easier to maintain,
> but when I did the original conversion I did a full swing adaption which
> was surprisingly quick.

Whoa, that's 16 megabytes compressed.

BTW would you be willing to relicense just the JImageCanvas part to GPLv2
so that we can ship it inside Fiji?

Ciao,
Dscho