Hi,
First of all, good work!!! This library is incredible, I've been dreaming
for something similar for years.
I've been trying to use the libvlc (http://www.videolan.org) throught jna,
and it worked perfectly (divX inside a JFrame seems to be a dream). The
problem is that the only way that I can tell the libvlc where it has to
display the multimedia content is with a drawable (Drawable on X11,
CGrafPort on MacOSX, HWND on Win32). Now, there is a method
com.sun.jna.Native.getWindowPointer that works well for JFrames, but if I
want to put the video inside a Canvas and I can't (well, actually I can but
with JNI, and I use jna to avoid this).
The solution seems to be simple, in the com.sun.jna.Native class create the
couterparts of getWindowPointer and getWindowHandle0, in this case
getCanvasPointer and getCanvasHandle0 (maybe a generic getComponentPointer).
I'm not completely sure, but I think that the implementation of
getCanvasHandle0 can be identical to getWindowHandle0 because
awt.GetDrawingSurface(env, w) can receive a canvas instead of a window.
I think that this functionality can be really useful to embed native display
(I think that Gecko has a similar method).
Thanks again for this great job.
Diego
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