Swing hardware acceleration?
 

Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?

Would it be folly to try to write a serious game like Angry Birds using Swing?

Re: Swing hardware acceleration?
 

On 10/5/2012 8:46 AM, bob smith wrote:
> Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?
>

Probably. That would be up to the JVM though.


> Would it be folly to try to write a serious game like Angry Birds using Swing?


Probably. Neither Android nor iOS use Swing, so what would be the point?

Re: Swing hardware acceleration?
 

On 10/05/2012 11:46 AM, bob smith wrote:
> Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?
web search terms java+swing+hardware+acceleration first hit
<http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/javaclient-484666.html>

Re: Swing hardware acceleration?
 

On 10/5/12 8:46 AM, bob smith wrote:
> Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?
>
> Would it be folly to try to write a serious game like Angry Birds using Swing?
>
Yes, swing does take advantage of some hardware acceleration, research
VolatileImage for more info.

Re: Swing hardware acceleration?
 

On 10/05/2012 01:02 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 10/05/2012 11:46 AM, bob smith wrote:
>> Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?
> web search terms java+swing+hardware+acceleration first hit
> <http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/java/javaclient-484666.html>

Some other sources for further information
The troubleshooting guides for JavaSE(6/7) desktop technologies.
Chet Hasse's weblog.

Re: Swing hardware acceleration?
 

On Friday, October 5, 2012 12:04:20 PM UTC-5, Daniel Pitts wrote:
> On 10/5/12 8:46 AM, bob smith wrote:
>
> > Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?
>
> >
>
> > Would it be folly to try to write a serious game like Angry Birds using Swing?
>
> >
>
> Yes, swing does take advantage of some hardware acceleration, research
>
> VolatileImage for more info.

Yes. It is very fast now. It is nice to get speed without the difficulty of OpenGL.

Re: Swing hardware acceleration?
 

On 10/5/2012 11:46 AM, bob smith wrote:
> Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?

Yes.

And more and more,

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/ar...nt-484666.html

describes what was done in Java 6.

But I would expect the actual benefits for a typical Swing app to
be very small.

Obvious there are non-typical Swing apps as well.

> Would it be folly to try to write a serious game like Angry Birds using Swing?

I would go for JavaFX for something like this.

Arne

Re: Swing hardware acceleration?
 

On 10/5/2012 8:46 AM, bob smith wrote:
> Anyone know if Swing can take advantage of hardware acceleration?
>
> Would it be folly to try to write a serious game like Angry Birds using Swing?
>

You can do pretty well without any additional hardware acceleration,
just with the speed of Swing. See my Asteroids game at
http://rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com/ for an example. It's not at the level
of Angry Birds but I think you could write a game similar to Angry Birds
in Swing without any trouble.

--

Knute Johnson