How large should Applets be? Any standards? What’s safe? Any safe width range and height range?
What is your experience with this?
personally i think 640480 is a good size, any thing larger than that tends to slow down on older computers. The width can be made smaller to something like 480480 and still look good. However making the height any smaller than 480 tends to start looking a bit on the small side.
I’ve done 800x600, but I’ve never really cared about slow computers. On the bright side, I’ve never heard anyone complain about 800x600.
800x600 is pretty safe based on my exp, 640x480 is very safe
Something slightly less than 800x600 is probably a good idea if you want people with 800x600 resolution to be able to play your game.
750x500, perhaps? Turn down the resolution on your computer and make sure it works. =)
I like 700390 640480 640400 640380 600330 500300 , it enable the applet to be inside the webpage without scroll and many flash game are around those size, I think that casual gamer dont like when the game popup too big and make browsing harder.
I’ve noticed that if you scroll a page that contains an applet off the screen, when you scroll the applet back onto the screen, it often gets bits of the applet screen left at the top and/or bottom just outside the applet (I’m guessing some sort of painting bug with the Java plugin - as it happen with IE, Firefox, and Chrome on my system). So it’s best to create a page that never needs scrolling. I found around 500 pixels high is pretty much the limit for the applet height.
I find that when a applet is starting anything that goes overtop will cause a mess on the applet screen.
[quote]I find that when a applet is starting anything that goes overtop will cause a mess on the applet screen.
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I notice that too, but it happen ramdomly, lot of time if a window overlap then only the old overlapped part of the screen is updated until another window overlapp the whole Applet, I thing it is related to validate/invalidate region but on the plugin side
I did some tests and if you only have a few things around your applet (making the applet the main part of the page) I like 900*500 (It’s almost 16:9 and looks really neat)