Hi All,

I'm hoping to build a simple online app which saves a still from a users webcam and uploads it to a MySQl database.

But the 'using capture' example only works running in processing, but if i export it as a web applet, when run it does nothing - even locally.

Is it possible to get this to work? to start with I am hoping to just have the app import the default vid capture device or fail. and I assume the users might need to accept a certiicate (which I haven't done before)?

Any help HUGELY appreciated.

sorry fry - embarassed to say i missed that. got it to work after some more trawling though and thought i would post how for reference.

first i checked out this thread:
http://processing.org/discourse/yabb_beta/YaBB.cgi?board=Integrate;action=display;num=1159386274;start=1#1

and made a .jnlp file containing the following but with my sketch name instead of 'ButtonJWS' and saved it in the applet folder from my exported sketch:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<jnlp
 spec="1.0+"
 codebase="http://www.whatever.com"
 href="ButtonJWS.jnlp">
 <information>
   <title>Testing Processing via Java Web Start</title>
   <vendor>processing.org</vendor>
   <homepage href="http://www.processing.org"/>
   <description>Testing Processing via Java Web Start</description>
   <description kind="short">Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and sound.</description>
   <offline-allowed/>
 </information>
 <security>
   <all-permissions/>
 </security>
 <resources>
   <j2se version="1.4+"/>
   <jar href="ButtonJWS.jar"/>
 </resources>
 <application-desc main-class="ButtonJWS"/>
</jnlp>

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that thread pointed me to this tut:
http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/Java_Web_Start

where i followed the steps under the heading "Signing the JAR File" and ran these commands from the osx terminal, the 'keytools' and 'jarsigner' app were already installed in OSX 10.4, so i just navigated to the applet folder in terminal and executed the commands:

keytool -genkey -keystore myKeystore -alias myself

keytool -selfcert -alias myself -keystore myKeystore

jarsigner -keystore myKeystore sketch_name.jar myself


this created another file in my applet folder. I then uploaded the folder to my server and went to the url and voila! it worked!