On Wed, 16 Sep 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> | From: drobnic.pavlo / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | To: dpinya / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Cc: java-linux / mime, , , [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | Subject: Re: Swing & Navigator
> | Date: Saturday, May 16, 1998 8:59AM
> |
> | > I'm usign Swing 1.0.2 and Communicator 4.05, and when I load any applet
> | > that uses some Swing class, I have the next message:
> | >
> | > java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: java.awt.Component: method enableEvent(J)V
> | > not found
> | > at com.sun.java.swing.JComponent<init>(JComponent.java:130)
> | > at com.sun.java.swing.JRootPane.<init<(JRootPane.java:182)
> | > at com.sun.java.swing.JApplet.createRootPane(JApplet.java:133)
> | > * at com.sun.java.swing.JApplet.<init>(JApplet.java:113)
> | > at SwingingApplet.<init>(SwingingApplet.java:27)
> | > at netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame.run(DerivedAppletFrame.java)
> | > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)
> | >
> | > I have the packages swing.jar, motif.jar & window.jar in the classpath
> | > and in in the class directory of netscape
> | > (/usr/local/netscape/java/classes).
> | >
> |
> | The matter is that version of Java VM in Navigator is slightly different
> | ;-) from yores and is incompatible for Swing-applet running at all. You
> | may update Navigator's VM for newest. Sun has a product named Java
> | Plug-in. It could be found at
> | http://java.sun.com:80/products/plugin/index.html.
> | I have tried it under Win32 and it was working properly. But the major
> | problem in Linux case is that there aren't ports of Java Plug-in
> | available :-(
>
>
> There *IS* a plug-in port available for Linux. I've got one somewhere.
> Don't remember where I got it from and I didn't find the time to give
> it a try. I think it even has the name beta-version: Activator...
>
> I did try the windows version though, and that one worked once pretty good.
> Nowadays, I can't use the plug-in anymore, since upgrading/uninstalling
> and installing of various versions of this product was too much for the
> beautifull windows registry 8-(
Have you guys tried Netscape 4.06? It claims Java 1.1 support. At least I
can get my very simple Swing applets to work with it.
