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[sdljava-users] feature request: better Java integration

[Robert S. <the...@gm...>]

Hi Ivan,
I have been playing around with sdljava and thought about the following 
problem: The SDLMixer API allows me to read WAV and MUS files only from 
the local filesystem. However a typical Java application loads its 
resources from streams or out of a JAR file (using the ClassLoader).

My suggestion is to use the so-called direct buffers from the NIO 
package (since 1.4). These are buffers in native memory which can be 
shared by Java and SDL. Direct buffers are pretty famous for doing all 
kind of native<->Java interaction (e.g. OpenGL bindings use them 
extensively) maybe they are of use here, too :)

cu
Robert

Btw: Same kind of problem arises in the SDLImage API.

Re: [sdljava-users] feature request: better Java integration

[Ivan Z. G. <iva...@ya...>]

Robert,

Thanks for the feedback.  This is a really good point!  I agree that 
this type of change should be made and that the NIO package should be 
used.  I will add it to the list of whats going to be done.

-Ivan/

Robert Schuster wrote:

> Hi Ivan,
> I have been playing around with sdljava and thought about the 
> following problem: The SDLMixer API allows me to read WAV and MUS 
> files only from the local filesystem. However a typical Java 
> application loads its resources from streams or out of a JAR file 
> (using the ClassLoader).
>
> My suggestion is to use the so-called direct buffers from the NIO 
> package (since 1.4). These are buffers in native memory which can be 
> shared by Java and SDL. Direct buffers are pretty famous for doing all 
> kind of native<->Java interaction (e.g. OpenGL bindings use them 
> extensively) maybe they are of use here, too :)
>
> cu
> Robert
>
> Btw: Same kind of problem arises in the SDLImage API.
>
>
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