I think if you just give the complete path to the earth.jpg file, it will work.
This solution is only if you are running the applet locally in a browser.
Otherwise you will probably have to make a URL, etc. to download textures, etc.
remotely.
"Kasparian, Raffi J." wrote:
> 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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