Communication between applets that are in different frames

Question

Hi,
I have two applets in the same browser page but not in the same Frame, and I'm trying to invoke a method of one of the applets from the other. getApplet("NAME") does not work because both are in different frames.
I have managed to do the communication with a static method, but the invoked method doesn't have the correct variables values (also defined static), these variables have the default values (i.e. int = 0).
My program:
Applet A --> loads the data and waits for Applet B's invocation.
Later....
Applet B --> invokes an Applet A's static method, Applet A receives the data, Applet A is supossed to work correctly, but its data is not the previously loaded but the default values.
What am I doing wrong? Looking at this, it seems that the static method invoked is from a different class.
Has anyone any working example? Is there another way (not signing)?
Thanks

Answer 1

You could do it using javascript. From what it looks like you are describing :
In Applet A's page, have a javascript function that looks like the following :
function callAppletB()
     self.parent.frame[1].document.getElementById("insert applet b's id here").methodName();
}Then, in Applet B's page, make a similar function :
function callAppletA()
     self.parent.frame[0].document.getElementById("insert applet a's id here").methodName();
}Just make sure that Applet A's page is the first frame on your frameset page. Hope this helped.
Ed