How to set FOCUS on applet (java-plugin)

Question

I wrote applet using Java 1.3.1, using swing clasess.
I use java-plugin, defined in <object ..> and <embed ..> tags as described in documentation,
with MAYSCRIPT parameter and ID and NAME parameters defined.
How to set up focus on this applet through JavaScript?
I have tried:
document.embeds[0].focus()
document.applets.MyApplet.focus()
document.objects.MyApplet.focus()
document.objects[0].focus()
document.MyApplet.focus()
But nothing works in my IE5.x or NC4.7. Applet itself works fine.
Is some special methods need to be defined in JApplet to catch the focus?
Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

I wrote applet using Java 1.3.1, using swing clasess.
I use java-plugin, defined in <object ..> and <embed
..> tags as described in documentation,
with MAYSCRIPT parameter and ID and NAME parameters
defined.
How to set up focus on this applet through
JavaScript?
I have tried:
document.embeds[0].focus()
document.applets.MyApplet.focus()
document.objects.MyApplet.focus()
document.objects[0].focus()
document.MyApplet.focus()
But nothing works in my IE5.x or NC4.7. Applet itself
works fine.
Is some special methods need to be defined in JApplet
to catch the focus?
Thanks for any advice.With IE you should try the following:
<OBJECT id='MyApplet' ...
document.MyApplet.requestFocus();
This worked fine for me, even without specifying additional "MAYSCRIPT" or "scriptable=true" tags. Obviously this construct managed to call the public Java method "requestFocus()" from JavaScript.
Maybe something similar would also work for Netscape. I felt no need to do this when running in Netscape, because the Netscape browser handled focus management without problems.
For IE I tried to workaround a problem mentioned by several people in this forum: The focus will not be regained by an applet when the user switched form IE to another application and then returns back to the browser window which contains the applet.
Unfortunally the following code fragment worked only partially well:
function activated()
if (isIE)
document.MyApplet.requestFocus();
return true;
window.onfocus = activated();
OnFocus is invoked only each second time when the browser window gains back focus.
I'm still looking for a real solution, so I'd appreciate if anybody could come up with one.
Hope this helps a bit
Bernd