Nick Howell

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Recent posts by Nick Howell

Hello! Could anybody tell how I could create a new blank image and assign current dimensions using only Java 1.1 API? What I'm basically trying to do is:
BufferedImage img = new BufferedImage(width, height,....);
only with just an image, in that API 1.1 doesn't support BufferedImage.
21 years ago
I would look into the Java Native Interface. I've never done anything with it before but I know that's how you take advantage of things that are platform specific. I'd start with the Java Tutorial on the Java website.
21 years ago
Thanks guys! I think I'm gonna have to stick with Java (Fight the power! ). I don't particulary like the idea of having to spend 1000 odd dollars to use some mediocre (I've developed with Visual Studio before and it's not THAT great!) program that helps support monopoly and deters technological advancement! Maybe I'll just have to make this applet so incredibly desirable that user's with 14k connections will be willing to wait hours to download Java 2 just so they can use my applet! Yeah, that's the ticket! Thanks again.
-Nick
21 years ago
Thanks a lot Dirk. So is this a problem that all applet developers have? Will we simply have to wait several years when Java 2 is installed on the greater portion of end-users? Is there any foreseeable end to this degraded applet development?
21 years ago
What type of games did you develop?
21 years ago
Nice applet! I'll make the assumption that this is an applet showing the Ptolemic model of the solar system with earth being the green dot. My suggestion would be to use a more realistic gravity model so you can show elliptic orbis but more importantly apocalyptic firey collisions with flames and big explosions and maybe even some blood! That'd be cool!!!
21 years ago
Not using classes that aren't in the 1.1 API...
Does that include user classes that I've made?
21 years ago
I have done some research and I have concluded that there is actually no problem here! Yeah, so now I look stupid but this raises another problem for me. I need to make an applet that is usable by a wide range of users. I have already written it using swing. Is there a way to avoid the 5+ MB download while still allowing users to view my applet? That is how can I avoid making an applet that requires upgrading to the Java 1.3 plugin?
21 years ago
Hi, my problem is that I have an applet that utilizes Swing components. Therefore, before I could upload this applet to my website, I had to run the HTML Converter on the page I was using to display it. I used the HTML converter that came packaged with the 1.4.0 J2SDK. But my problem is, when I view my webpage with IE6 (on a computer that can view the applets on java.sun.com perfectly) it requests to download the Java plug-in 1.3 when clearly it should not be doing this. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to use and older HTML Converter?
21 years ago
OK! I'm having the problem where I build an applet that utilizes newer java components, run it successfully in appletviewer, then post it on the web and when I access it I get "load: class xxx.class now found". I've looked all over the net and many people have this problem. So I took a tip from them and downloaded Sun's HTML converter 1.1.1 and converted my html file, but that didn't help, it just changed the erronious applet's background from a dull gray to a fancy white one with misinformed loading text on it. Here's also something interesting. Before I even heard of the HTML converter, I could run my applt fine in Netscape 6, but not in IE6. Yet on a machine next to me (on the same network) I could run the applet fine in IE6. Yet on a third machine, the applet gave the "class not found" error. Needless to say, I'm thoroughly confused. Somebody help me!
Also, if anything about my description of my problem is confusing, don't hesitate to ask for a rephrasing there of.
21 years ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but what you're trying to do is not feasible. Look into Java Server Pages, then access one of those with your applet. This is called multi-tiered programming.
21 years ago
Thanks anyways guys! That tutorial looks like it will definitely help me narrow things down.
21 years ago
Hi, I'm having a problem with my browser that I'm sure you've all encountered before. When I compile and load an applet under a certain class name, I can never view another applet with the same class name. So if I test and applet, then make changes to it and recompile it, when I view it in the browser (both IE6 and Netscape 6 do this) it just reverts to the first compilation. I know applet viewer doesn't do this. If somebody could help me I would be very appreciative.
21 years ago
what method are you using to move the object(s)? rephrase you question and post the code. BTW, your link didn't work for me in IE6.
21 years ago
Hi, quick question, can anybody give me some suggestions as to how to draw a fast grid? I've tried making a box, the size of a grid square, then drawing lines on the top and left sides, then using that as a texture. This works ok on a small portion of the screen but when displayed over a large percentage of the screen it is way too slow. Is this because of the texturing or something else?
21 years ago