Image, BufferedImage

I use Toolkit.createImage to load images from my harddisk. This returns a java.awt.Image (the runtime class is sun.something.windows.WImage). But I need a java.awt.image.BufferedImage.
My current converter takes the dimensions of the Image and creates a new BufferedImage with those dimensions. Then I retrieve a Graphics2D from the BufferedImage and draw the Image inside. Finally I return the BufferedImage.

This works, but it is very slow. The total startup time for my app ranges from 30 seconds to 2 minutes! And most of it is the time I require to load the images.

Does anyone know a better way to convert Image to BufferedImage?
Current code:

Code:

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private static class ImgListener implements java.awt.image.ImageObserver
{
        public boolean imageUpdate(java.awt.Image img, int f, int x, int y, int w, int h) {
                return ((f & java.awt.image.ImageObserver.ALLBITS) == 0);
        }
}

private static BufferedImage createBufferedImage(java.awt.Image img)
{
        // this is damn slow!
        ImgListener listener = new ImgListener();
        int width;
        while((width=img.getWidth(listener)) < 0)
                ;
        int height;
        while((height=img.getHeight(listener)) < 0)
                ;
        BufferedImage out = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
        java.awt.Graphics2D g = out.createGraphics();
        while(!g.drawImage(img, new java.awt.geom.AffineTransform(), listener))
                ;
        return out;
}

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Thanks in advance!

I think u should use this


Toolkit.getDefaultToolKit().getImage()

I don't think so. From the Sun Docs:

Quote:

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... developers are encouraged to implement their own caching of images by using the createImage variant wherever available.

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And it doesn't solve my original problem of not having a BufferedImage and needing to long to convert.

woudn't this help ?

PHP Code:

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BufferedImage getBufferedImage(Image image)
{
        int imageWidth  = image.getWidth(this);
        int imageHeight = image.getHeight(this);
                
BufferedImage buffImage = new BufferedImage(imageWidth, imageHeight, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
                    
        return buffImage;
    } 


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That's what I already do. Except in my code there is a part that copies the content of the Image to the BufferedImage.

Thanks, but this won't help me.