P3D Stereoscope Java applet and OCC is today (Tuesday)

["H a r o l d B a i z e" <baize@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg Wageman wrote 

> >So please visit the site and let me know if the
> >Stereoscope applet works for you.
> 
> Nope.  I've tried it before from someone else's site and got the same
> results.
> 
> It causes one or a bunch (hard to tell) of windows to fill the screen
> and flicker like mad with no useful image information contained therein,
> just black.  If I'm lucky, I can find the "Stereoscope" window and kill
> it; if not, I have to go to Task Manager and kill the process from
> there.
> 
> Windows NT 4.0, SP4.  MSIE 4.01 SP2
> 
> Depthcharge works, though!

This is what happens if you do not have Java 1.1 support. 
It is not part of the "typical" (default) install, of MS 
Internet Explorer (surprise- Microsoft doesn't want to make 
it easy to use a multi-platform non-Windows standard) you 
have to select the "Virtual Machine" option from the 
custom install.

So for all of you who are thinking of moving up to IE-5.0 I 
would strongly urge you to do the custom install and get the 
Java support (Virtual Machine). 

If you already have DepthCharge then you don't really need 
Stereoscope, the big advantage of Stereoscope is that, with 
Java support, it can provide multiple viewing options on many 
different systems, i.e.. Mac, Linux, OS/2 (snicker), etc. DepthCharge 
only works with Win/95/98/NT.

On the other hand, even if you have DepthCharge you may want 
to get Java enabled for the many other Java applets that are 
being created. I've even seen sophisticated computer graphics 
programs written as Java applets.

Oh, and the OCC meeting is tonight (Tuesday), when I posted 
the message yesterday I didn't consider that the digest might 
not be sent until today!

Harold


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