Re: Applet Magic works great, sort of

[vdelvecc@mesmer.camb.inmet.com (Vince Del Vecchio)]

>>>>> On Fri, 29 Mar 1996 19:03:18 GMT, crispen@hiwaay.net (Bob Crispen) said:

> I've got Applet Magic working with very few problems on a Windows 95
> machine with LabTek Gnat 3.01.

> The only problems are:

> (b) Netscape 2.01 won't display any of the applets, but appletviewer
> will.  Suspect this is a problem with running it locally without httpd
> running or some other silly.  The errors are:

I don't know for sure, but if it is working under appletviewer,
I agree that it is _probably_ something in the way you have things set up.
Are you sure you have a CLASSPATH set in the environment from which you
are starting netscape?

> (c) You've got to compile things in a certain order (you sure get
> spoiled fast by gnat).  I did it the brute-force way, by compiling
> everything until everything compiled OK.  Since the Readme file is a
> couple of steps behind anyway, could we have a makefile?  (ducking for
> cover, due to a recent discussion here).

The easy way to do this is to register (adareg) all of the files.  This
is fast and you should only need to do it once.  After that you can
compile things in any order.  You really shouldn't need a Makefile.

> I'm reporting this here because:

> (a) I swear I couldn't find a "report bugs to" address in any of the
> documentation or on the webpage.

In small print in the release notes file, it says to report problems
to stt@inmet.com or maclaren@inmet.com.  CLA is probably _not_ the best
place for these.

> (b) Applet Magic is a bloody miracle.  To heck with the bugs, this is
> beta software and less than beta documentation.  Way to go,
> Intermetrics!

Glad you like it, and thanks for the encouragement!

-Vince Del Vecchio
vdelvecc@inmet.com