Swing Listeners and Threads…

by | May 23, 2005 | Java

How do you listen? I end up writing a couple of the addListenerX(), removeListenerX(), fireEventX() patterns every day almost. There are a couple of ways around to implement this with an ArrayList or maybe a HashSet or the AWTEventMulticaster. Generaly I have ended up...

Java/Swing can be as fast as native!

by | May 3, 2005 | Java

I have been experimenting with java today seeing if Java is fast enough to make a full-screen slideshow application that fades between images. The answer is Yes well at least on Windows with the right -D switches. It is using “Full-Screen Exclusive Mode”...