Returning array from applet to JavaScript

Hi,

I have a question for which I cannot find an answer and would be very grateful for some help.

I have a Java applet within an HTML page and I can call the applet's methods from JavaScript without a problem when the page is viewed in Internet Explorer 6.0. If an applet method returns any Java primitive data type then the value can be assigned to a JavaScript variable and displayed (and this is also true if the applet method returns a Java String). However, if an applet method returns a Java array then the JavaScript variable to which it is assigned is always valueless.

So, with Internet Explorer 6.0 is it actually possible to have an applet method that returns a Java array to JavaScript? If so, could someone please provide a simple example. Many thanks.

Terry.

Return your array as a character delimited String. Chose a delimiter that won't appear in the data. Then write a routine in Javascript to parse it and return it to an array. To speed it up, pass the number of elements as the first part of the string.

I've done this kind of thing with other languages as well..

for example, passing an array as a comma delimeted string from a DLL to a VB scripting language. This idea works pretty well...

Thank you both for your suggestions. I had considered this approach but was hoping to avoid conversion to a string because one of the arrays I wish to return to JavaScript from the Applet is a byte array which I then wish to pass to an ActiveX method which will accept the byte array as a variant data type. Thus ideally I would like the JavaScript to accept the Java byte array as a sort of 'blob', the contents of which I do not not need to access in the JavaScript itself.

Terry.