SVG Salamander
SVG Salamander is an SVG engine for Java that's designed to be small, fast, and allow programmers to use it with a minimum of fuss. It's in particular targeted for making it easy to integrate SVG into Java games and making it much easier for artists to design 2D game content - from rich interactive menus to charts and graphics to complex animations.
Features
- Ant task to allow easy conversion from SVG to images from within Ant scripts
SVGIcon class greatly simplifies loading and drawing images to screen- A much smaller code foot print than Batik, and only one JAR file to include
- Direct access to the scene graph tree. You can use Java commands to manipulate it directly.
- An index of all named shapes in the SVG graph is easily accessible.
- Picking shapes given (x, y) coordinates is possible, and can be used to implement graphical buttons selected by the mouse
- Clip region sensitivity makes for fast rendering when only updating part of the image. This makes panning the camera quite efficient.
- Easy rendering to any
Graphics2D or BufferedImage. Unlike Batik, the SVG Salamander engine does not own the graphics context, so you can pass it whatever graphics context you like.
- Internal and external links are implemented as URIs, which allows the engine to automatically import linked documents - even if they're stored on a remote server.
- SVG can be read from an
InputStream, so you can create documents dynamically from an in-program XSLT transformation.
Documentation
An overview of how to use SVG Salamader in your project.
Current status
SVG Salamander is part of the Salamander project hosted on http://www.kitfox.com
Projects using SVG Salamander
- Apache Pivot - An alternate crossplatform GUI for Java.
- VisiCut - A tool for laser precision cutting.
- Xoetrope - An alternate crossplatform GUI for Java.
- Power Line - A slide editor for SVG.
- Tygron - Serious games illustrating urban planning and climate change.
- NeoLogica - Medical imaging.
- JOSM - Java OpenStreetMap Editor.
- Freeplane - Java program for working with Mind Maps
License
SVG Salamander is available under two licenses. You may choose to use either the LGPL license or the BSD license - whichever is more appropriate for your project.
