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List:       openjdk-2d-dev
Subject:    [OpenJDK 2D-Dev] Merge CacioWeb
From:       richard.bair () oracle ! com (Richard Bair)
Date:       2012-01-13 21:50:46
Message-ID: EEEAD208-6703-4B1B-A057-2DB90A7816D1 () oracle ! com
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> > > We also have a somewhat special backend which renders
> > > exclusively into a BufferedImage and can only process events generated
> > > by Robot, which is particularily useful for unit testing GUI
> > > applications without messing around with the user's desktop or without
> > > requiring graphics on a continuous integration server (extremely useful
> > > if you're into this GUI testing thingy).
> > 
> > That would be very cool. The SQE team uses robot / image testing heavily for FX \
> > and "taking over my computer" is one of the chief problems with it (the other \
> > being image tests are finicky).
> 
> 
> Cacio is a Java2D backend in the end, I don't know if it works with JavaFX, but it \
> would be nice to give it a try, maybe you could help us on that? :)

Probably won't work straight away for JavaFX because we don't use AWT other than \
Java2D as a fallback. I've wanted to add a headless toolkit implementation to Glass \
though for just this use case.

Richard


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