[lug] browser button events to Java

[Michael Deck]

You might also try the Boulder Java User's Group. There have been some site 
reorgs but last I knew they were at

bjug-discuss at avitek.com

and also at www.bjug.org. They have been helpful with such queries in the 
past.

-Mike

At 05:44 PM 10/27/00 -0600, you wrote:
>There are not too many java developers on this list - at least they don't
>speak up much.  I would go to deja.com for a newsgroup search.  Another site
>that has proven useful to me for applet issues in the past is:
>http://www.borland.com/newsgroups/ - even if you don't use JBuilder.
>
>One thing you could investigate - if your hosting environment supports
>servlets is storing a state serverside.  Then your applet could receive that
>information from the server.  A long detour - but possible.
>
>JavaScript is generally fairly broken - every browser interprets it
>differently.  Same is true for applets if you use the browser's own JRE.  So
>I would test your code at least in Netscape and IE.
>
>Ferdinand
>
>Michael Wegener wrote:
>
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > We're trying to build an applet that gets events from the browser's
> > back/forward buttons, and are having some difficulty. There is a way to
> > interface JavaScript to Java, but requires that the active frame contain
> > the JavaScript, and since our applet occupies another frame, we seem
> > stuck. Has anybody done this or run across a viable method before?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > --Michael Wegener
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Michael Deck
Cleanroom Software Engineering, Inc.