Ticket #444 (closed task: moved)

Currently AWTDisplayController is responsible for creating BufferedImages that are displayed in an ImageCanvas. The call to AWTDisplayController::update() creates a BufferedImage from the Dataset that is 1:1 scale in X & Y. For large Datasets this will be a problem.

Barry and Aivar discussed this some and noted some possible design changes.

We'd like to support the ability of the ImageCanvas to just display a BufferedImage that is made by AWTDisplayController. The ImageCanvas would pan and zoom on the given BufferedImage. The AWTDisplayController could make a BufferedImage from a number of tiles (allowing much less memory use).

After a certain zoom level is reached (1:1) then any zoom within ImageCanvas would just scale and pan on the last BufferedImage it was given. If panning or zooming out would cause a boundary of the current BufferedImage to become visible the ImageCanvas could say "hey, display controller, now I need to see region (x1,y1,x2,y2) of the image". The AWTDisplayController could then recalculate a new BufferedImage that represents that region of the Dataset building from some tiles as needed. ImageCanvas would display the new BufferedImage.