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Beautiful applet, horrible Netscape. (sent to Herb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Angel)
Fri Dec 8 15:17:39 1995
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 1995 19:24:03 GMT
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
From: Michael Angel <michael@delphi.co.uk>
>Date: Fri, 08 Dec 1995 16:59:55
>To: jellinek@eng.sun.com
>From: Michael Angel <michael@delphi.co.uk>
>Subject: Beautiful applet, horrible Netscape.
>
>
>Hello,
>
>We emailed each other last week regarding your General Purpose Animator applet.
>
>I wanted to get the applet to START paused, ie; with the ANIMATION stopped
but with
>the SOUNDTRACK running.
>
>Your tip: ' The startPlaying can be called from wherever' has helped me to
change the
>Animator around.
>
>This been done and now works beautifully with the applet viewer thus:
>
>The images load (displaying one of the images as a background), the audio
soundtrack loads
>and then the sound starts. The animation is 'paused' and waits for the user
click to get it
>going, as the animation starts, the soundtrack stops. There are no
soundclips tied to individual
>frames and so there is only silence as the animation runs.
>
>PERFECT!!
>
>But wait, here's the wierd and wacky part; the applet viewer does this
pefectly either over the
>network or locally... Netscape however ....
>
>Netscape loads up the HTML file, (from the server), loads all the Images,
then the audio soundtrack
>and then tells me it's running (via the status line), but strangely no
soundtrack, to prove the applet is
>running I can click on it to start the animation.
>
>Here's the slightly weirder part:
>
>If you then minimise Netscape and then restore it, or drag another window
in front of it, causing
>netscape to 'refresh' the screen, ('refresh' from the Netscape 'view' menu
doesn't work) soundtrack then
>starts, and the applet behaves beautifully.
>Otherwise, it just sits there and waits for the click (no soundtrack).
>
>AAAAARRRGGGH!
>
>Completely hat-stand.
>
>Please could you help...
>
>Regards...
>
>
>.
>Michael.
>London Delphi.
>
>(PS: The 'company' is apparently so interested in Java that they even send
me on a course
> or something (I need it))
>
>
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