[JAVA3D] TextureLoader.getImage() hangs in IE5

[Kasparian, Raffi J.]

Hello all,

This is my first submission to this group. I have successfully run several
3D applets in Internet Explorer 5 but I can't get IE5 to run an applet that
loads a texture such as EarthApp (from the 3D tutorial). IE just seems to
hang when it gets to the statement
                ImageComponent2D image = loader.getImage();

Does anyone know what the problem is?

Following is the code from the tutorial that contains the above statement:

    Appearance createTwistAppearance(){

        Appearance twistAppear = new Appearance();

        String filename = "earth.jpg";

        System.out.println("attempt to load texture from file: "+filename);
        TextureLoader loader = new TextureLoader(filename, this);
        ImageComponent2D image = loader.getImage();//CAUSES IE5 TO HANG

        if(image == null) {
            System.out.println("load failed for texture: "+filename);
        }

        Texture2D texture = new Texture2D(Texture.BASE_LEVEL, Texture.RGBA,
                                      image.getWidth(), image.getHeight());
        texture.setImage(0, image);
        texture.setEnable(true);

        texture.setMagFilter(Texture.BASE_LEVEL_LINEAR);
        texture.setMinFilter(Texture.BASE_LEVEL_LINEAR);

        twistAppear.setTexture(texture);

        return twistAppear;
    }

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