On Dec 3, 10:14 pm, Nils Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The thing is - It's not just a matter of jar-files. The java3d install
> process drops 2 library files in place:
> creating: lib/
> creating: lib/i386/
> inflating: lib/i386/libj3dcore-ogl.so
> inflating: lib/i386/libj3dcore-ogl-cg.so
> creating: lib/ext/
> inflating: lib/ext/vecmath.jar
> inflating: lib/ext/j3dcore.jar
> inflating: lib/ext/j3dutils.jar
> You can't possibly expect to be able to ship those over to the
> browser. Therefore, the instructions should be very clear about the
> fact that one actually has to install 3d *client-side* to get nice
> graphics. Given that people already have to install java and fonts, I
> don't think that's too much of a penalty.
It really does work for some people (me!) without any explicit client-
side install of java3d.
Maybe we should start looking for patterns in whether this works or
not, in hopes that it will help somebody (Robert?) fix things so it
works for everybody?
Here's everything I can think of that might be relevant, about my
working setup:
OS: 32-bit x86 Linux (Debian testing)
Browser: Firefox 2, as packaged by Debian under the name iceweasel;
specifically, iceweasel version 2.0.0.8-1
Java environment: Sun's Java 6 JRE/JDK/plug-in, as packaged by Debian
(sun-java6-{bin,doc,font,jdk,jre,plugin}, version 6-00-2)
As far as I remember, I haven't done anything to my Firefox or Java
setups outside the Debian packaging system; I certainly haven't
installed java3d client-side.
At the moment, I have copies of the libj3dcore-ogl.so library in /tmp;
a representative filename is /tmp/jnlp-applet/jln4961/jln4975/
libj3dcore-ogl.so .
> Given how well the four-by-four applet behaves inside the browser, I
> think you should try for an inlined applet that gets "enlivened" when
> necessary and "freezes" when it's no longer necessary to be
> responsive.
I also think this would be nice, although William's points about it
being nice to be able to resize the window, move it around, etc., are
also true. I suppose we could have some sort of 3-way toggle (tachyon
image vs. java3d in-browser vs. java3d separate window), although that
might be confusing to novice users.
Carl
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