[Applet - Newbie] Render Spatial into java.awt.Image

Troubleshooting graphics
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Hi!



This is a newbie question, I haven't yet gone through

the entire users guide, sorry.

I'm writing an applet that needs to show x3d-files in a

javax.swing.JButton (Swing). So I need to render an x3d-file

into an java.awt.Image object, after that I will call

JButton(new ImageIcon(image));



What I would like to have:

public java.awt.Image drawSpatialIntoImage(Spatial sp) { // }



Right now I'm extending SimpleJMEApplet to show the

x3d-file (class MyApplet extends SimpleJMEApplet).



Some pseudo-code:

public class MyApplet extends SimpleJMEApplet {

    public void simpleAppletSetup() {

        initLights();

        byte[] modelBytes = getModelBytes("monkey.x3d");

        showModel(modelBytes);

    }



    public void showModel(byte[] x3dBytes) {

    ByteArrayInputStream modelIn = new ByteArrayInputStream(x3dBytes);

        Map<String, InputStream> texIns = new HashMap<String, InputStream>();

       

        X3DLoader x3DLoader;

try {

x3DLoader = new X3DLoader();

        Spatial model = x3DLoader.loadScene(modelIn, texIns, lightState);

        model.updateRenderState();

       

        model.setModelBound(new BoundingBox());

        model.updateModelBound();

       

        Node node = new Node();

        node.attachChild(model);

        getRootNode().attachChild(node);

    }



    public void simpleAppletUpdate() { /changing angle/ }

}



Thanks for any suggestions or links.



Regards,

Brad