hi David,

The reason behind the need to do this is that I want to use Widgets as icons for Nodes in other windows on the platform, and the Node interface uses java.awt.Image for it's icons. The widgets are programmatically generated from my object model so I don't want it the other way around (using ImageWidget's to show the Node icons).

If it were possible to add this to Scene that would be great for my application but hopefully would be useful to other users as it would help integrating the visual library with the Nodes / Explorer modules in this way.

thanks

Pete

------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Hi Peter,

The whole issue is that the scene view has to be created and shown to get correct font-metrics ... It means the "addNotify" method of the JComponent scene view has to be called be Swing. Only then the scene knows correct font-metrics...

Therefore it is not possible to solve your use-case now.

Let me know, it is really necessary to work "off-screen". If so, then we can add a new method: // the method name is weird so we can propose better one public final void Scene.forceValidate (Graphics2D graphics) { Graphics2D prevoiusGraphics = getGraphics (); setGraphics (graphics); validate (); setGraphics (prevoiusGraphics); }

In your use-case you would just call: // create an empty image myScene.forceValidate (myEmptyImageGraphics); // get the caculated scene width and height and create an image of particular size myScene.paint (myOutputImageGraphics);

Be aware that this may introduce a problem later when you show the view since the Graphics2D object may have different font-metrics ...

Regards, David

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