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David N

Hi,

I wrote a piece of code to generate thumbnails of images using the Java.awt but I found out that I need to run it in a headless environment. I switched to using the getDefaultToolkit() in the PJA package.

Using:
image = PJAToolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(sourceFile.getPath());
rather than:
image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(sourceFile.getPath());
Which works great.

But I need to be able to set the background color for the image in case it is a GIF with transparency. I could do that using Java.awt when I wrote the image:
graphics2D.drawImage(image, 0, 0, newWidth, newHeight, bgcolor, null);
Where bgcolor is a Color object. But Color does not work in a headless environment.

Does anyone have any ideas about what I might be able to do? Is there anything in the PJA Toolkit that might help me?

Thanks in advance for any help,

David

Manu

Retrieve a Graphics instance bound to a PJAImage object.
Then, use its fillRect and drawImage methods...

If you use the classes cited in PJA Toolkit FAQ "What methods can be called in a servlet with no problem of Toolkit access for end users ?", your code should look like this :

  // PJAGraphicsManager replaces safely Toolkit in headless environments
  PJAGraphicsManager manager = PJAGraphicsManager.getDefaultGraphicsManager();

  Image image = manager.getImage(sourceFile.getPath());
  // This is the easiest way to load an image synchronously
  // you may also use a standard ImageObserver (see PJA examples)
  ((PJAImage)image).sync();
 
  // Create an empty image at same size
  Image imageWithBackground =
      manager.createImage(image.getWidth(null), image.getHeight(null));
 
  // Get its Graphics object
  Graphics g = imageWithBackground.getGraphics();
  // Change current color safely (java.awt.Color needs X11 libs until JDK 1.4 included)
  ((PJAGraphicsExtension)g).setColor (red, green, blue);
 
  g.fillRect(0, 0, image.getWidth(null), image.getHeight(null));
  g.drawImage(image, 0, 0, null);
 
  // Do whatever you want with imageWithBackground

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Manu (moderator/modérateur)

David N

Hi,

Thanks for that, mate.
I'll have another play with it and see how it goes.

Cheers
David