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#21

[quote]I also made a small change so that it will display a message to the user if it has java 1.1 or better, but not what requested by the applet. That is, if for example a user has java 1.4, and tries to view a 1.5 Applet, a message will be displayed (by applet boot), telling him to install latest version of java, in order to view the applet and then opens java.com in another tab in the browser.

I have not been able to thoroughly test, this, so any reports on how it works would be great (especially for OS X and linux). It is currently in use at:
Dirami Conquest (currently java 1.5)
It seems like there is a pause when it reads libs or the certificates for playing ogg, but that is probably out of hands of the Applet Boot.
Any feedback on the game here
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work fine with MSJVM :slight_smile: ( opened java.sun.com or something like, you should better redirect to java.com for direct installation )

#22

Ah, thanks for reminding me! java.com was down for the whole day that I tested it. I thought that Oracle might have changed it’s mind about how useful java is. :persecutioncomplex: Is back up now, so I will change it back.

It seemed like some os-browser combos wouldn’t open up a new tab for

getAppletContext().showDocument(…);

It worked fine using FF and WinXP. Anyone knows what blocks it and if there is a workaround?
It is probably a good idea to print out where to get java in the applet anyway.

#23

I have tested on IE6 so it logically open a new window (cause ie6 dont have tabs :slight_smile: I keep this configuration : IE6/XP/MSJVM/Java1.6 so I can test compatibility with it because when it run on it it should run fine everywhere )

for tabbed browser I really dont know… but not sure you can do anything to force a tab rather than a window it seems to me that it is more related to browser & java version than to the command showDocument (maybe it exist a special target name ?)

#24

Sorry I missed your reply.

I was probably a bit unclear. The showDocument() doesn’t do a thing, no tab, no new browser. I’d be happy with opening a new browser, even though most ppl probably prefer new tab, but no nothin’ isn’t very good user experience. That could be the fancy pop-up blockers, and I just have to live with displaying a link in the applet.

#25

UPDATED VERSION HERE : http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php/topic,22239.0.html