Piccolo toolkit 1.2 review

License: MPL (Mozilla Public License) File size: 4409K Developer: Professor Ben Bederson

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Piccolo is a truly revolutionary way to create robust, full-featured graphical applications in Java, with striking features such as zooming and multiple representation.

Piccolo toolkit is a well-tested and extensive toolkit based on the Java2D API.

Requirements:
Blackdown Java Media Framework for Linux
Blackdown Java3D for Linux

What's New in This Release:
This release brings together the Java and C# desktop versions of the toolkit with nearly identical APIs.
It adds several new features and examples, and fixes a few minor bugs.
This release finishes the Direct3D renderer for the .NET version, introduced in the previous beta release.
This extension enables hardware acceleration and potentially significant performance improvements.
The Web site has been further improved, with basic and advanced tutorials, applets, a 2D Graphics Primer, a developer FAQ, and more.