Re: Resizable JWS Applet
Thomas Hawtin wrote:
Andrew Thompson wrote:
This example shows how to make an *applet* that is
launched using WebStart (JWS), resizable.
You could just make it into an application...
(Or do you want the sound clip functionality?)
LOL! No.. But you did raise a good question in "what's the point?".
Well, it just bugged me, is all.
After spending a great deal of effort designing resizable GUI's,
then a lot more time figuring how to make an applet that resized
to 'the available content area'* of a web page, it was very
disappointing to see that JWS'd applets ended up in an
unresizable frame (applet viewer).
As such - I generally wrote off using JWS to launch applets,
and was recommending the path you suggest 'for JWS
launch - convert to an application'.
Now, this at least gives the devloper the option to
retain the applet, and still have it resizable.
Mostly, I put it here to remind myself that JWS applets
*can* be resized, which is important (putting it here),
because I may have forgotten by next week. ;-)
Now that I put it down like that, it hardly seems as
impressive an achievement.. oh well. :-/
* <http://www.physci.org/test/resize/>
Andrew T.