Applet / HTML interaction ?

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hey guys, I wanna do a Model Viewer in JOGL (applet embedded into a webpage). The user can query for the data to display with different options and then it displays the selected model. I thought about having the Query Elements (like textfield, button, drop-down-menu) outside the applet as HTML elements.

So my question is, is itt even possible to interact with an applet (like pass certain parameters) from the HTML/JavaScript code ?

Thank you for your help.

Best regards
randy

#2

yes, applets can talk to JavaScript pretty easily using LiveConnect. Plenty of tutorials on the web for it.

#3

Thanks mate, will look into it :slight_smile:

Here are 2 links to get started
https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/liveconnect/
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/guides/plugin/developer_guide/java_js.html

#4

nothing really to do :

from javascript just do something like :

JavaScript :

document.applets[0].myJavaPulicField=3;

or

JavaScript :

document.applets[0].myJavaPublicMethod(3);

note that you can retrieve applet reference from hundreds of differents ways :

JavaScript :

getElemetById("AppletID").myPulicField // width <APPLET ID="AppletID" .....
getElementsByTagName("APPLET")[0].myJavaPulicField