Re: Opening instruments with appletviewer vs. browser
On Feb 12, 8:25 am, "Momo" <m...@physics.syr.edu> wrote:
On Jan 26, 8:09 pm, "Andrew Thompson" <andrewtho...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Jan 27, 5:04 am, "Momo" <m...@physics.syr.edu> wrote:
A Java program that I've written that makes sounds works fine when I
test it with appletviewer, but not when I use a browser (Firefox or
Explorer). The difference is that when I call the MidiSystem
synthesizer with getAvailableInstruments, I get a bunch of instruments
(411) when running it with appletviewer, but none when using a browser.
Why the difference?
Quite possibly due to bugs in thesoundclasses.
...
If that is the case, you might try launching your
applet using web-start, to provide more control
over Java versioning.
...
Thank you for the suggestion. It turned out not to work, but I got to
learn how to use WebStart, so that was good.
The solution to my problem turned out to be that I needed to install
the Java soundbank.
(athttp://java.sun.com/products/java-media/sound/soundbanks.html)
Did you try supplying the soundbank as
a (download='lazy') resource in the JNLP
file? That should result in the soundbank
only being downloaded for the end-users
that do not already have it installed.
Andrew T.
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