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jroussel
how to launch the applet only when the user decide
Oct 24th, 2006, 11:30pm  
hello and sorry for the bad english (i speak french)
i want to do a Web page about brownian diffusion but i'd like the applet launch itself only after a click on an icon (processing icon for example). Of course i don't want to open a new window with the applet (i know how to do) but i want java work only when the user décide. is it possible ?
i hope explanations were clear...

you could see the test page : http://perso.ensc-rennes.fr/jimmy.roussel/index.php?page=java1&bug=no

best regards

Jimmy
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JohnG
Re: how to launch the applet only when the user de
Reply #1 - Oct 25th, 2006, 11:17am  
I think you could do this with javascript, and an <iframe>.

When the page loads the iframe shows a blank page, but clicking on the icon runs some javascript that stes the iframe's location to a page with the applet on it.
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haliphax
Re: how to launch the applet only when the user de
Reply #2 - Feb 23rd, 2007, 11:59am  
Code:
<html>
<head>
<title>Brownian Diffusion</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php

if(isset($_GET['start'])){
  echo '<embed src blah blah blah...>';
  echo '<more applet init code, blah blah..>';
} else {
  echo '<a href="index.php&start">Start Applet</a>';
}

?>

</body>
</html>


it may be php, but that's as simple as it gets. :)

edit: this can also be modified with about 15 lines of ajax code (depending on your ajax wrapper) to have only a portion of the page refresh, such as an iframe or a span.
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haliphax
Re: how to launch the applet only when the user de
Reply #3 - Feb 23rd, 2007, 12:10pm  
well, i feel like a moron. you found a very nice way to do it on your page, i see, and it involves no special scripting languages of any kind. Smiley
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fjen
Re: how to launch the applet only when the user de
Reply #4 - Feb 23rd, 2007, 12:49pm  
http://appletobject.org/

http://appletobject.org/index.php?q=examples

we're still working on this ... and it will eventually become part of processing in the future (export to web).

F

oh, and here's the report on that:
http://dev.processing.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=491

and some old discussion:
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=Integrate;action=display;num=1168878870
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