Thread: Using Protected Methods, in a Java Library

Hey, there are a set of java image processing classes I want to use.
It is a library online... "JHLabs Java Image processing"...

Download Java Image Processing Classes

The java docs are here...
com.jhlabs.image


For example the class EdgeFilter ... I cant use because the the method that actually does the Edge filtering is a protected method

...
protected int[] filterPixels( int width, int height, int[] inPixels, Rectangle transformedSpace )
....

Same with ErodeFilter etc.. I can make instances of these classes but I cant use its actual necessary function.
That is same with all the image classes that I want to use.


Is there anything I am missing... How can I possibly use this library of classes with the netbeans project that I am doing. (I have imported the jar file library this comes with)


Thanks in advance.

So I make a class that extends the class with the protected method.
And in the class that I'm doing all my image processing stuff I should make an instance of the extended class.
Do you think I should do this?

If I just put extend on the class I can access the method right?

Oh and I didn't know about the cross posting, sorry wont do this again...