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Re: Animator

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arthur van Hoff)
Thu Jan 4 19:16:47 1996

Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 13:11:12 -0800
From: Arthur.Vanhoff@Eng.Sun.COM (Arthur van Hoff)
To: honda346@netcom.com
Cc: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM


Hi Erik,

> Anyone else noticed the Animator applet seems to wait for
> mouse movement to keep loading images in Netscape b4?  It just loads
> all images up in the appletviewer, but stops loading in b4 if you don't
> move the mouse.
> 
> On the issue of transparency, the Animator applet will handle a static
> background image fine, and if your animation images are transparent
> it will look fine.
> On the same note, I've had success using the ImageMap class with 
> transparent gifs, you just have to do a loadImage() of some background 
> gif (the exact same size as the transparent ones) into the ImageMap 
> first, then load the applet (that is, the one you will interact with) 
> ImageMap.  Regards, Erik.

This sounds like a Netscape but. There may be a problem with their
event handler. Please submit the bug with them.

Have fun,

	Arthur van Hoff
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