[java] Can Java be used for this?

yes it can go search for some.

Maybe one more thing. The games should be able to run fullscreen. I''ve found a few games, but they are all tiny applets. Is this possible?

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again yes look for a article on doing full screen on the sun site.

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Original post by Koen VB
Maybe one more thing. The games should be able to run fullscreen. I''ve found a few games, but they are all tiny applets. Is this possible?

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Yes it is possible. A good way to do it is to use some sort of background component to draw on (usually a custom JPanel), set it up in a JDesktopPane, and you can make it fullscreen or any size you want. Plus you can use menu''s etc. via the Desktop pane at the same time.

I am actually a Java programmer more than any other language, yet when it comes to games, I prefer OpenGL (which in turn made me learn C++). Java has it''s own 3D classes, but I never got into them and I am pretty certain that they would not give you any where near the power you can get from an OpenGL application, due to Java apps being a precompiled/interpreted mix that dont have the same control over an OS that a pure standalone application can give.



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These days we do pure OpenGL in Java:

http://java-game-lib.sourceforge.net/

which gives us the best of both worlds. (Also handily gives us Joystick & Gamepad support amongst other things)

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