A Small Gift to the Community.

[EDanaII]

And by small, I mean "little" as in "practically nothing." ;-)

Some time ago, while updating my skills, I was asked to write a Java program that "bounced a ball of the sides of the screen." Being somewhat bored with the class I actually did more than was asked for. The result is a sensless little program I call JBoing, which I wrote in honor of the good ol' daze of Amiga.

So, for any who are interested, here's my minor tribute to the Amiga of long ago: JBoing.

I hope you all enjoy it for the whole 5 that seconds it amused me. :-)

And, sorry guys, but it is a Java app, so you must have a Java enabled browser. :-( Yea, I hate reality too...

Oh, and even though the instructions say "click anywhere in the gray area to activate" there's a small bug in the program (related to the virtual machine, I think), so, instead, "click anywhere in the upper half of the grey area to activate it."

In any case, enjoy,
Ed.

[EDanaII]

I'm glad you guys enjoyed it. :-)


@ Those for whom the applet worked:

Did the Workbench load initially? Or did it appear only after you "activated" the applet? That was the bug I was refering too. I'm now beggining to suspect that it's related to the browser cache rather than the JVM.


@ InTheSand

The sources are available, all one has to do is ask. I'll put them up on my website eventually.


@ InTheSand & Beller

As to expanding it. I'd love too, had I the time, but... well, you get the idea. :-)


@ Bill Hoggett

Greetings Bill! Long time, no read.

In case you don't remember, I used to be pretty active on CSA.Amiga, back during the "Gateway Daze."

Ed.

[EDanaII]

Yea, like I mentioned before, the Workbench doesn't appear to load right away, but it looks like it does after it gets cached. I may try something like loading the gif before the applet and see if that makes any difference.


@ Karlos

They best I can tell from all of that is that the "Amiga" class, which is the "main" class that runs the entire applet, is not getting loaded. Unfortunately, I can't tell you why that's occuring. Have you checked your browser settings, or even tried a new browser?

Ed.