Users of the Rosa applet

[Ken Lord]

Andy,

That is awesome, thanks very much.  I use many simple javascript
functions in my maps but I wasn't familiar with the methods available
to repaint the graphics of the applet so I wasn't sure which way to go
with it.

I'll be trying out your function right after dinner tonight!

Cheers,
Ken Lord
Vancouver BC


On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:52:07 -0800, Andy Canfield
<andy.canfield at gmail.com> wrote:
> Ken,
> Here is the Javascript function that solves the re-paint issues for me:
>    function forceInvP(){
>                var app = document.RosaApplet;
>                var graph = app.getGraphics();
>                app.paintAll(graph);
>                app.repaint();
>        }
> Andy
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 13:17:33 -0800, Ken Lord <kenlord at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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
> > >
> >
>