Class holding a modifiable image 1

[Swamphen]

I hope I can explain this right:

I'd like to have a class that creates an image based on a not-modifiable image core.

More concrete: I want to show a 3D graph of a molecule, where the molecule skeleton is always the same, but the identity of the side chains can change based on the information in the applications configuration file.

This would probably result in something like a class that contains the image itself, defines static and non-static regions in this image, and contains links to sub-images to superpose on the non-static regions.

Does anybody know of existing classes that perform this task? Or has anybody done similar things already?

Thanks for any advice.

Swamphen

 

[sedj]

Look at the JAI API. This will achieve what you want to do - but be warned - the API can be quite difficult to grasp at first ...

http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/jai/forDevelopers/jai1_0_1guide-unc/

http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/onlineTraining/javaai/

 

[Swamphen]

A quick scroll through the JAI guide shows me that this package will indeed suit my needs.

Thanks a lot.

Swamphen