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Re: Beta Win95 JDK appletviewer crawls on startup?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ball)
Mon Nov 6 17:49:46 1995
Date: Mon, 6 Nov 1995 11:44:32 -0800
From: Thomas.Ball@Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Ball)
To: garya@village.org
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
> On Win95, JDK Beta:
>
> Attempting to run the appletviewer:
>
> (cd ...\java)
> bin\appletviewer demo\GraphLayout\example1.html
>
> results in the appletviewer window appearng (empty) except for the
> menubar with the "Applet" button; and text in the lower left corner
> which says "starting applet..."
>
> If you choose "Quit" or click the close glyph in the wm title bar,
> it exits; choosing any other menu item does nothing, and subsequently
> Quit does not work either (presumably it is blocked pending the previously
> requested action).
>
> After a long wait (a minute?), the messages
> "status: applet loaded"
> "status: applet initialized"
> "status: applet started"
> appear in the DOS window from which it was started;
> the lower left corner label in the viewer changes to "applet started";
> and the applet appears.
>
> What's going on?
> Is some network connection probe being attempted?
> (no network connection was available in this case, but making one
> available seemed to make no difference)
As part of initializing Java, the Java network library attempts to make
a WINSOCK connection. If it's not available, it will timeout. If you
have MSN set up, just click the cancel button when the dialer dialog
comes up.
> Aside: Do 2.0 Navigator and Java still require Microsoft's winsock, or will
> a Trumpet winsock work as well?
Any WINSOCK compliant product should work, but we can't help anyone set
it up correctly.
> BTW, some of the demos, such as BarChart, do not work properly unless
> run from their subdirectory.
That's a known problem with file URLs (we're working on it). You won't
see this if accessing the samples from an HTTP server.
> BTW, changing the properties does not save correctly as distributed;
> the subdirectory java\.hotjava does not exist in the distribution.
> Once created, they save fine.
We hope to have a true setup.exe in the 1.0 release for the Win32 port.
One of the things it will do is create this directory.
Tom Ball
Java Products Group
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