Advice

NotAGolf · 14 Jun 2007 at 11:41

I'm starting to research into my final year project for my degree. Basically i'm looking into redoing the moving map on the in-flight-entertainment on planes, problem is I have limited programming experience. I'm most experienced in Java so would probably prefer to do it in this, but I have a bit of experience in C.

My question is does anyone know of libraries/classes which would help me out in this field? I've only used buffered images before in Java with very limited manipulation and i'm not sure whether this would be capable of what i'm looking for because I think I need something that has lots of 'drawing' abilities.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

NotAGolf · 16 Jun 2007 at 08:16

I've just found out that java has the built in classes graphics and graphics2D, the 2D one sounds a bit promising. Has anyone used this much before? If so is it any good or are there better classes out there? Are there any good tutorials for fairly complex drawing that any knows of? Thanks

noob · 16 Jun 2007 at 10:48

Hi

From my personal experience I think Java has poor graphical capabilities. It is slow. The benefit of Java is, you can run your programs on many platforms. If I was you I would look into using c#. I've just checked on the web and there's seems to be plenty of resources, tutorials, examples for graphics.

http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/Upload...2005233454PM/GraphicsProgramminginCSharp.aspx

http://www.samspublishing.com/articles/article.asp?p=25357&rl=1

Yes Java has a rich set of classes but so does c# and it's a lot faster.

matzhouse · 16 Jun 2007 at 11:35

yeah, i'd look into the possibilities of using web technologies for this.

Flash springs to mind, and then you also have cross platform support. You could even use php/asp/cf, etc and a nice bit of ajax.

mat

dan0r2 · 16 Jun 2007 at 12:40

C# would be perfect for this.

It uses the same syntax style as Java so you will pick it up right away.

Huge graphics potential!

I'd describe C# as Java thats actually enjoyable to program with!

So many benefits of C# aswell - low level data types such as pointers and the .NET framework are amongst some.

My final year project involved creating digital image processing functions and I used C#. Everything went smoothly.