Re: java-HexGrids.....

[Ed Roskos <roskos at home dot com>]

Howdy All,

    Well, I have decided to toss my code up on my webpage,

http://members.home.net/roskos

There is a link to some Java code I just put up there, along with the JavaDoc
documentation.  It was pretty hastily put together, so feel free to toss back
questions.  Also, I haven't tested it too much recently, and at least on Linux
there are a couple of glitches I found in the latest JDK that weren't there
before.  If anyone gets around to running some code, please let me know how
it went.

There is also an image file of some of the Babylon 5 images I had in the infamously
erased GDL/IMF files I had mentioned many moons ago.  I still look forward to
finding the time to write a new library, using some of the Civilization emulation
GDL recently tossed in by Stan (Stan, it looks great!  Can't wait to whirl away with it!)

Have fun!

> >     I had written some code a little while back which worked with tiled hex grids
> > in Java, so I figured I would share some of my insights.  I had used Java2 with
> maybe sharing your code? ;D
> seems your work is a lot ahead of my implementation .....
>
> > Swing and the Java2d API.  This allows the most portability of the code, over using
> yep, just looked at the tutorial, seems in fact better suited than standard awt
> as primarly used by me.... but i never really made a graphical app since
> now....
>
> > general, Java is slower than native code, and GUI work is no exception.  From my
> yep trying the 800x500 suggested by Stan let my XServer crash..... i suppose
> too much memory recquirements.... or something along this side, on the other
> side, perhaps my portable isn't a references (even with 128MB of Ram...)
>
> > experiences, performance is entirely inadequate for anything real-time, but for
> > turn-based games like Xconq, it should be fast enough.  By using Java2d shapes
> thought  it the same line....
>
> > and tiling, background terrain can look really nice, and it is easy and quick to code
> > with Java2D, since the same hex shape can be used for drawing the grid and the background terrain.  You also need a shape for each zoom, and
> ehm do you? i simply scaled the whole thing.....
>
> > walla, different-size grids  In Swing, lightweight components could also help out.  I also agree with Bruce that a server/client architecture
> yep put the hex in a JComponent....
>
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