Archives for June 2007

Software Demo Movies

I’ve added some notes on video screen capture for software demos over on Random Tech Notes. This isn’t strictly Java-related, though I’ve been experimenting with screen recording in the context of capturing a Java application that has animation and audio synchronized to user interaction, two factors that complicate the task a bit.

23 June 2007 | General Development | No Comments

Headless Exception Work-Around

On upgrading a piece of (1.4-dependent) server-side software from 1.4.2_01 to 1.4.2_14, I began seeing errors that looked like:

java.awt.HeadlessException
at sun.java2d.HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.getDefaultScreenDevice
(HeadlessGraphicsEnvironment.java:66)
at javax.swing.RepaintManager.getVolatileOffscreenBuffer
[…]

16 June 2007 | Bug fixes | No Comments