Re: JAR! . . .What is it good for?. . .Absolutely nothing :-)

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:51:17 -0500
Message-ID:
<VTThh.86047$_n2.564140@weber.videotron.net>
"Richard Maher" <maher_rj@hotspamnotmail.com> wrote in message
news:em6942$4o0$1@news-02.connect.com.au...
[...]

This is what I'm left with: -

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function empchanged (txt)
{
var selectRef = document.forms[0]["users"];
var optsRef = selectRef.options;
while (optsRef.length > 0)
{
selectRef.remove(optsRef[0]);
}
var val = txt.value;
if (val.length > 0)
{
document.EmpApplet.initEmployee (txt.value);

for (;;)
{
var emp = document.EmpApplet.nextEmployee ();
if (emp == null)
break;
selectRef.add (new Option (emp,emp) , null);
}
}
}
function setemp (sel)
{
document.forms[0]["employee"].value =
sel.options[sel.selectedIndex].value;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form>

<object
width= "0" height= "0" >
<param name="type" value="application/x-java-applet;version=1.6.0">
<param name="archive" value="emp.jar">
<param name="code" value="EmpApplet.class">
<param name="codebase" value="http://1.2.3.6/">
<param name="mayscript" value="yes">
<param name="scriptable" value="true">
<param name="name" value="EmpApplet">
<param name="HOST" value="1.2.3.6">
<param name="PORT" value="3333">
</object>

<input type="text" name="employee" onchange="empchanged (this);"
onkeyup="empchanged (this);">
<select name="users" onchange="setemp(this);"></select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

This code works with the AppletViewer and connects to my VMS name-lookup
server (Which also proves that your mickey-mouse applet uploader is doing
it's job) but won't work with the html as I get (depending on which html
page I try) document.EmpApplet is null or not an object OR Object does not
support this property or method AT
document.EmpApplet.initEmployee(txt.value)


    It sounds like your problem has to do with getting JavaScript to talk to
your Java applet, a topic on which I know almost nothing about. If nobody
else answers here, perhaps you can crosspost the above (the FTP stuff, etc.
does not seem relevant to me) to the JavaScript and Java newsgroup, in a new
thread, with a subject line which summarizes the problem like "How to get
JavaScript to talk to my Java applet" or something similar.

    - Oliver

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