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Active desktop
Dec 4th, 2005, 9:13pm
 
Hi

I've exported my processing sketch to an applet which runs fine in both ie and firefox.  But what I really want to do is run it as a webpage on my desktop via the windows active desktop feature.  when I try this, nothing loads, ie. I see an empty grey box where the applet should be running (and the prcessing and source code links below it). I am running Windows XP Prof. and the latest beta of processing.  Has anyone run into this problem before or have any thoughts about how to rectify it? I've been fiddling around with security settings for a couple of hours now but to no avail.  It seems weird to me that it would run in ie but not the desktop.  I dont know what program is responsible for rendering webpages on the desktop.  I checked the java console and there is no output there at all.  Sorry if this is an issue that has been addressed before - I couldn't find the post if it is.

Thanks,
Matt
Re: Active desktop
Reply #1 - Dec 7th, 2005, 11:02pm
 
Hi all

Not sure if this is helpfull or anyone's interested, but I found the solution to my problem. I thought I'd post it in case anyone ever runs into a similar situation.  If your processing applet is running fine everywhere apart from the desktop, it is becuase you have MICROSOFT JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTALLED AND YOU NEED TO UNINSTALL IT.  Doing so is not particularly trivial, but the good people at Sun have put up set by step instructions here http://www.java.com/en/download/help/uninstall_msvm.xml .

Now, if only Microsoft could give me back the last 24 hrs of my life........

Peace,
Matt
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