Re: Animating bitmaps on openmap

The Java Plugin supports the standard Java 2 runtime, which includes
Swing. To run OpenMap as an applet, the Plugin is required.

- Don

Chinh Tang wrote:
>
> How did you get a browser to load Openmap as an applet with Swing components in your
> layers?
>
> "Donald F. Dietrick" wrote:
>
> > Hi John,
> >
> > You can use a javax.swing.Timer to do this. The timer should call a
> > method that starts the re-query, and you use the methods on the OMBitmap
> > to update its position, call OMBitmap.generate() with the current
> > projection, and then layer.repaint().
> >
> > - Don
> >
> > Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > >
> > > You could add a thread to a location layer handler that goes back and
> > > requeries for the location(s) position(s) every so-many milliseconds.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mark Bucciarelli Peregrine Systems, Inc. R&D, Boston
> > > (413) 253-0020 mbucciarelli@peregrine.com Yahoo: m_bucciarelli
> > > http://www.peregrine.com
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: John Mairs [mailto:mairsj@oso.nrl.navy.mil]
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:59 PM
> > > > To: openmap-users@bbn.com
> > > > Subject: Animating bitmaps on openmap
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi Folks,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying to setup a simple experiment using Openmap.
> > > > Imagine a scenario
> > > > where you are using Openmap to track a GPS receiver, say in
> > > > someone's car or
> > > > in an airplane. My first step is to simply display a bitmap.
> > > > I already
> > > > have a Windows bitmap; i.e. bmp file, that I would like to
> > > > use. I noticed
> > > > some JPEG helpers in the API but nothing explicity stating
> > > > bitmap or bmp.
> > > > Seems to me this code would make up a "layer" and that
> > > > somebody else must
> > > > have done this already.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Next question is how do you animate it moving on the map? Most of the
> > > > examples I have seen have been with "static" data. From an object
> > > > orientated sense I have a couple of different objects that
> > > > all know their
> > > > current location and they need to draw themselves. I guess
> > > > my question is
> > > > what is the trigger that would model an icon/bitmap slowly or
> > > > quickly moving
> > > > along a road on a digital map? Any code fragments or
> > > > examples out there?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > John
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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