Users of the Rosa applet

[Ken Lord]

Hi Andy,

I use Rosa, and JRE 1.5.. and have seen a few bugs in both IE6 and
Firefox from a few different computers. Occasionaly a 'stack' error
pops up when you move the mouse over the map, or when the new map
image loads the image is there but you cant see it until you take
another action on the map, even just querying it.  This bug I've
noticed happening with nearly every map viewed with a new Athlon64
windows XP IE6 JRE 1.5 computer I had access to recently.

In the past there's been a random problem of some of the Rosa map
tools dissappearing from the map.  This still seems to happen with the
new JRE but perhaps not quite as often, hard to say.

For me its to the point that i may just strip Rosa out of my maps once
and for all.  I'd love to see a simple, clean, portable Flash applet
to replace it with. The company I'm with has made a flash interface
for mapserver, but its not simple in appearance, not universal in
function, and not portable at all.  The one or two open source flash
interfaces I've found either are not really working yet or are just
too glitzy looking.

Cheers,
Ken Lord
Vancouver BC

On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 12:58:05 -0800, Andy Canfield
<andy.canfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> For anyone using Rosa or other applets with Mapserver.
>
> I recently upgraded my JRE to 1.5.0_02 when the update from Sun came out.
>
> I will spare you the pain of repeating my headache. If you install
> this update and then use an applet from within Firefox it will crash
> your firefox randomly for users who are running on Windows 2K and
> possibly other Windows OS's(I don't know if the same is occuring on
> *nix boxes or not).
>
> If you leave it at 1.4.2_06 or roll it back to 1.4.2_06 the problem
> will go away. It doesn't seem to affect IE6.
>
> Other users are reporting the same things when using sites such as
> miniclip-tournaments.com that use applets as well.
>
> I submitted this to the Firefox people and they are trying to figure
> out if it's them or Sun that needs to do the fixing.
>
> Until it gets sorted out remind your Windows users not to upgrade
> their JRE if they use Firefox or switch to IE6(Yuck I know). I have no
> idea what in the applets is causing it but it causes pretty
> spectacular crashes in some cases.
> Thanks,
> Andy
>