appletviewer vs IE

[Mike Calder]

 I'm missing something obvious, and this is probably an Internet
 Explorer environmental thing, but I'm getting tired and need help! I
 have gone over all the obvious parameters and properties in IE, and
 even edited the registry to no avail.

 I have a bunch of applets on an HTML page.  Some need bitmaps, and
 some need to know what other applets are doing.  All my code works
 fine in apppletviewer, but when I try to browse the same HTML page
 using Internet Explorer, it doesn't work.  Is it possibly because the
 URLs I'm testing on are local files? Or what?

 In appletviewer, this loop works fine, and I get all the information
 about my other applets on the HTML page.  In IE, hasMoreElements
 either fails or returns zero.

   do
     en=getAppletContext().getApplets()
     loop while en.hasMoreElements()
     -- doesn't get here in IE
     t= Rexx current.getAppletInfo()
     .
     .
     .
   end

 In appletviewer, this code works fine, and I get the bitmap drawn
 where I want it.  In IE, it bombs out on getImage.  Depending on how
 and where I call the code from, it sometimes shows a security exception
 message on the status line, with no parameters in the message "...
 cannot connect to  on file ".

  baseurl=getDocumentBase()  -- get the base URL
  urlnew=URL(baseurl, 'stun.gif')
  newimage=getImage(urlnew)  -- get the image
  -- doesn't get here in IE
  g.drawImage(newimg, 5,  7, 12, 18, this)

 Any white knights?
 
Clear skies!
Mike Calder
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[dIon Gillard/Multitask Consulting/AU]

At 17:37 16/01/98 +0000, Mike Calder wrote:
> I'm missing something obvious, and this is probably an Internet
> Explorer environmental thing, but I'm getting tired and need help! I
> have gone over all the obvious parameters and properties in IE, and
> even edited the registry to no avail.
...
> In appletviewer, this code works fine, and I get the bitmap drawn
> where I want it.  In IE, it bombs out on getImage.  Depending on how
> and where I call the code from, it sometimes shows a security exception
> message on the status line, with no parameters in the message "...
> cannot connect to  on file ".
Sounds like you have you're applet on a server?

Could you post the full exception trail??
dIon Gillard
Sun Certified Java 1.1 Programmer
Work: http://www.multitask.com.au
NetRexx: http://www.multitask.com.au/netrexx
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[Mike Calder]

Thanks very much for offering to help.

I guess I've resolved the problem - I've dropped all attempts to use
Microsoft Internet Explorer.  The applets work fine in the Sun HotJava
1.1 browser (freely downloadable for personal use from
www.javasoft.com), which seems to be an awful lot more Java-friendly -
it actually either works or tells you what's gone wrong!  It gives
exception windows when applets go wrong, has a console window that can
be brought up, and so on.  Not to mention the fact that it's less than a
quarter the size of IE.

All my customers will now be told to either switch to HotJava or to
expect no technical support.

Clear skies!
Mike Calder
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[dIon Gillard/Multitask Consulting/AU]

Mike,  have you tried the latest communicator with the patch?

I use it quite regularly, and find it very stable.


At 13:30 21/01/98 +0000, you wrote:

>Thanks very much for offering to help.
>
>I guess I've resolved the problem - I've dropped all attempts to use
>Microsoft Internet Explorer.  The applets work fine in the Sun HotJava
>1.1 browser (freely downloadable for personal use from
>www.javasoft.com), which seems to be an awful lot more Java-friendly -
>it actually either works or tells you what's gone wrong!  It gives
>exception windows when applets go wrong, has a console window that can
>be brought up, and so on.  Not to mention the fact that it's less than a
>quarter the size of IE.
>
>All my customers will now be told to either switch to HotJava or to
>expect no technical support.
>
>Clear skies!
>Mike Calder
>
>

dIon Gillard
Sun Certified Java 1.1 Programmer
Work: http://www.multitask.com.au
NetRexx: http://www.multitask.com.au/netrexx
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[mcbrides]

>I guess I've resolved the problem - I've dropped all attempts to use
>Microsoft Internet Explorer...

There are more and more locations doing the same thing. Recently, a repair shop
that I contract to tried to move from NS to IE. Needless to saym they're a NS
shop again...

A puzzling problem they had with one desktop, IE would not die... The tech at
that facility said that she had to reformat the drive to get rid of it, while
the other PC's had no such problem...

>All my customers will now be told to either switch to HotJava or to
>expect no technical support.

It's nice to have such leverage. However, I beleive that most IE users will
get the clue, sooner or later, that IE sucks, NS or HJ actually work...

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