Multiple applets on one site?

asimes

Multiple applets on one site?

in Integration and Hardware • 1 year ago

I'm not sure which forum is appropriate for this question but it is about setting up multiple Processing applets on one website that can toggle by a javaScript function. I've had a few of my Processing projects on my old websites but I directed people to them with links. The links went to different pages which were a slightly stylized version of the HTML files Processing generated for me. My new website is mostly set up however I still have the mentioned links up as a temporary solution.

Website: http://alexsimes.com/

Click on "Visual Programming" to see what I meant by temporary link solution.

Is it possible to toggle applets like this on one page? I make most of my content appear by using document.getElementById('my id').innerHTML = "my content" which causes problems because I can't just have it write all of the content from the Processing generated files because they include <script> tags. My guess was to have:

appear once and then have everything in the next script tag be information that toggles based on the applet I want open.

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hellochar

Re: Multiple applets on one site?

1 year ago

If you take a look at the source of that webpage, you can see that he uses the <iframe> tag to display other webpages. I didn't poke in further but I suspect he's changing the visibility style of the iframes in order to hide the ones that aren't being selected. It's definitely more of an HTML coding challenge than a Processing one. You might be able to do the same thing, by having separate .html files for each applet and then pointing iframes to them.

Alternatively, you can use Javascript to deploy multiple applets one after another in a single page. If you look at the Processing generated .html file, it calls deployJava.runApplet with some parameters; you could probably make more calls to runApplet to get more applets.

asimes

Re: Multiple applets on one site?

1 year ago

Ah, I didn't think about that (that's my website by the way). That would be a lot easier than tweaking the HTML files Processing made for me, I'll probably do that for now. If I do manage to get the other method to work I'll post it.

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