Re: Mac tablet?

Posted by Kenneth Sloan on
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Mac-tablet-tp4999634p4999695.html

I meant input devices like the WACOM tablet.

-Kenneth Sloan
 (von meinem iPhone4 gesendet)

On Aug 8, 2012, at 9:16, "Johannes Schindelin" <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Kenneth,
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2012, Kenneth Sloan wrote:
>
>> I'm configuring a Mac Pro workstation that will be doing a lot of ImageJ
>> work.  Any suggestions on balancing processors/memory/disk space are
>> welcome.
>>
>> My specific question is: what TABLET would you recommend?  I'd like to
>> provide tablet input as an option, but I am unfamiliar with the current
>> options.
>
> So far, ImageJ does not work on any mainstream tablet, mainly because
> desktop Java is not supported there (keep in mind that ImageJ 1.x requires
> AWT which not even Android supports).
>
> Now, while there is a good chance that ImageJ2 will support Android some
> time in the future (because Android is based on Dalvik, a mostly
> Java-compatible virtual machine, which lacks support for AWT/Swing,
> though), the chances of ImageJ/ImageJ2 to support iPad are virtually zero.
> It has been made very clear that Apple refuses to support running Java
> programs in any form, as it is incompatible with their business model.
>
> The only chance you have to use a tablet to interact with ImageJ is by
> turning it into a second display for your desktop computer. ImageJ2 might
> grow a web interface at some stage, which would work, too. In any case,
> ImageJ would not run on the iPad but on another machine with the tablet
> merely providing the user interface.
>
> Ciao,
> Johannes
>

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