Getting the value of Applet Label using JavaScript

Question

hi,
i tried this:
alert(document.all.Applet1);
and got a description of applet characteristics. But
alert(document.all.Applet1.labelName);
returns undefined, whereas
alert(document.all.Applet1.labelName.value);
returns "null or not an object".
Thank you in advance for any suggestions,
Reshat.

Answer 1

The question basically is the browsers' DOModel for Applets, if it exists.Not that I am aware of. If your applet is done in Java 1.1, there is no need for you to fool around with the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags wich are only needed if your applet requires a Java plugin. As it stands, your applet should work fine with the browser's native JVM which is 1.1.5 for both IE and NN4+ (it will probably work on NN6+ via a plugin -- NN6+ doesn't have a native JVM).
The way you should do it is to code a public getter method inside of your applet to return the label that you need. Here is an example Java class:
public class testClass extends Applet {
   String myLabel;
   public void init() {
      myLabel="test string";  // or whatever/however you assign the value
   public String getString() {
      return myLabel;
}To access the value of myLabel from JavaScript, you would do this (assuming that you named the applet in the <APPLET> tag as myApplet):
var str=document.myApplet.getString();
V.V.