This doesn't work in Safari:
<html>
<body>
<applet id="MyApplet" code="MyAppletClass" archive="MyApplet.jar">
<script type="text/javascript">
alert(document.getElementById('MyApplet').myMethod);
</script>
</body>
</html>
myMethod
is a public method declared in MyAppletClass
.
When I first load the page in Safari, it shows the alert before the applet has finished loading (so the message box displays undefined
) . If I refresh the page, the applet has already been loaded and the alert displays function myMethod() { [native code] }
, as you'd expect.
Of course, this means that the applet methods are not available until it has loaded, but Safari isn't blocking the JavaScript from running. The same problem happens with <body onLoad>
.
What I need is something like <body onAppletLoad="doSomething()">
. How do I work around this issue?
Thanks
PS: I'm not sure if it's relevant, but the JAR is signed.
I use a timer that resets and keeps checking a number of times before it gives up.
<script language="text/javascript" defer>
function performAppletCode(count) {
var applet = document.getElementById('MyApplet');
if (!applet.myMethod && count > 0) {
setTimeout( function() { performAppletCode( --count ); }, 2000 );
}
else if (applet.myMethod) {
// use the applet for something
}
else {
alert( 'applet failed to load' );
}
}
performAppletCode( 10 );
</script>
Note that this assumes that the applet will run in Safari. I've had some instances where an applet required Java 6 that simply hangs Safari even with code similar to the above. I chose to do browser detection on the server and redirect the user to an error page when the browser doesn't support the applet.
Here is a generic function I wrote to do just this:
/* Attempt to load the applet up to "X" times with a delay. If it succeeds, then execute the callback function. */
function WaitForAppletLoad(applet_id, attempts, delay, onSuccessCallback, onFailCallback) {
//Test
var to = typeof (document.getElementById(applet_id));
if (to == "function") {
onSuccessCallback(); //Go do it.
return true;
} else {
if (attempts == 0) {
onFailCallback();
return false;
} else {
//Put it back in the hopper.
setTimeout(function () {
WaitForAppletLoad(applet_id, --attempts, delay, onSuccessCallback, onFailCallback);
}, delay);
}
}
}
Call it like this:
WaitForAppletLoad("fileapplet", 10, 2000, function () {
document.getElementById("fileapplet").getDirectoriesObject("c:/");
}, function () {
alert("Sorry, unable to load the local file browser.");
});
I had a similar problem some time ago and adding MAYSCRIPT to the applet tag solved my problem.
Take a peek at this page:
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/applets/_APPLET_MAYSCRIPT.html
Hope it helps!