[Opensvgviewer-general] Should we use CSIRO?

[Nuno F. <na...@al...>]

Hi ppl,

Since our last meeting I have been testing and working with the=20
CSIRO SVG Toolkit, and I would like to share with you some ideas
and conclusions of my tasks.

So, I think it won't be useful for our purposes because there are too =20
many classes using Java2. While parsing almost all created SVG elements=20
have a draw method (elements "know" how to draw themselfs,=20
which I believe to be a good idea) that implements Java2 (Graphics2D and =

other Java2 methods). That compromises the direct use of this toolkit =
and=20
makes the conversion to Java (jdk1.1.8) a very hard task.

I have done some tests with the CSIRO Viewer and it needs some=20
considerable resources to run. In an AthlonXP 2100+ pc, it takes
about 4sec to open the file Avr1.svg and uses about 30Mb of memory.

Therefore, I suggest not to use CSIRO SVG Toolkit but use it's=20
architecture and organization in a brand new application.

That's my opinion and I'm waiting your's ideas.

Nuno Andr=E9 Faria
Laborat=F3rio SIG
Departamento de Inform=E1tica
Universidade do Minho
4710 - 057 Braga
Portugal

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