Andrew Thompson
http://pscode.org/
Andrew Thompson wrote:It would be a better experience for the end user if the frame(s) were launched using Java Web Start.
And speaking of frames, it is generally only necessary to have one frame in an application. Other free floating UI elements might be shown in a JDialog or JOptionPane, or alternately included in the main UI using a CardLayout or any number of components (e.g. JSplitPane, JTabbedPane, JDesktopPane/JInternalFrame).
J R Hatch wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:It would be a better experience for the end user if the frame(s) were launched using Java Web Start.
I don't say you're wrong, but why? As it runs (if I could get it to run), there would be an applet on the page ..
Andrew Thompson
http://pscode.org/
Andrew Thompson wrote:
J R Hatch wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:It would be a better experience for the end user if the frame(s) were launched using Java Web Start.
I don't say you're wrong, but why? As it runs (if I could get it to run), there would be an applet on the page ..
What page? Did the user click a link to get to the page? If so, change that 'link to applet page' to a 'link to JNLP' and the end user will have the same experience, except that.
The free floating 'name/choose a color' screen is either resizable (difficult in a web page) or the exact size it needs to be (even harder in a web page). Neither the end user nor you have to deal with applet/JRE/browser interaction problems. JWS can also perform desktop integration (desktop shortcut, start menu item), automatic updates or updates under programmatic control, sand-boxed access to the local file system, a built-in persistence service (to save high scores) ..and a dozen other nice little tweaks that I thought I took the time to mention in that page on JWS I linked to.
Did you actually read it?
J R Hatch wrote:.. can you or someone else answer my original question? ..
Andrew Thompson
http://pscode.org/