Simple java program to open a SVG file

[Alice Mello Cavallo <me...@media.mit.edu>]

Hi all,

I am trying to understand how all works,  but the batik project is to 
complex for me, and I have not found any documentation or tutorial on how 
to use the basic implemented features.
I am trying the program below, but get the SVG Error:

Unable to make sense of URL for connection

Does it mean that I can not open a local file, but only remote ones?

I will appreciate any input,
Alice

>/*
>  * Created on Aug 11, 2003
>  *
>  * To change the template for this generated file go to
>  * Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments
>  */
>package org.apache.batik.apps.svgbrowser;
>
>import org.apache.batik.swing.JSVGCanvas;
>
>/**
>  * @author Alice Mello
>  *
>  * To change the template for this generated type comment go to
>  * Window>Preferences>Java>Code Generation>Code and Comments
>  */
>public class OpenSVG {
>
>
>/**
>  *
>  */
>// JSVGViewerFrame vf = new JSVGViewerFrame();
>public OpenSVG() {
>super();
>// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
>}
>
>  public static void  main(String[] args) {
>JSVGCanvas csvg = new JSVGCanvas();
>csvg.loadSVGDocument("C:/Program 
>Files/eclipse-SDK-2.1.1-win32/eclipse/workspace/Batik/samples/3D.svg");
>
>}
>}

Re: Simple java program to open a SVG file

[Thomas DeWeese <Th...@Kodak.com>]

Hi Alice,

Alice Mello Cavallo wrote:
> I am trying to understand how all works,  but the batik project is to 
> complex for me, and I have not found any documentation or tutorial on 
> how to use the basic implemented features.

     Don't give up now you are _very_ close.  To be fair a lot
of your issues have been more Java issues (class path, jar files,
packages) than true Batik issues.  Please keep in mind that Batik
implements a 600 page specification that builds on several other
multi-hundred page specifications (CSS2, DOM, DOM Events), it needs
to be a large library.  Anyone on to the problem at hand.

> I am trying the program below, but get the SVG Error:
> 
> Unable to make sense of URL for connection
> 
> Does it mean that I can not open a local file, but only remote ones?
> 
> I will appreciate any input,

    C:/Program... is not a URL it is a platform file reference.
The best way to turn this into a URL is something like:

	java.io.File file = new File("C:/Program...");
	java.net.URL url = file.toURL();
	csvg.loadSVGDocument(url.toString());

    The url version of this file ref would look something like:

	file://C:/Program....

    But File.toURL will get it right for you - so use that.

>> csvg.loadSVGDocument( "C:/Program 
>> Files/eclipse-SDK-2.1.1-win32/eclipse/workspace/Batik/samples/3D.svg" );
>>
>> }
>> } 




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