Live Connect - Argh! Help!

Question

Can someone show me a simple example of how to pass a string within Java back to the calling JavaScript code? I've read the LiveConnect Documentation at DevEdge and it still makes no sense to me. Many thanks.

Answer 1

In your HTML and MAYSCRIPT and the PARAM scriptable as true
<OBJECT id="keyboard" name="keyboard" classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93" WIDTH = "820" HEIGHT = "300"  codebase="http://java.sun.com/products/plugin/1.1.2/jinstall-112-win32.cab#Version=1,1,2,0"><NOEMBED><XMP>
<APPLET CODE = "KeyboardApplet.class" CODEBASE = "/Kiosk" ARCHIVE = "applets/keyboard.jar" WIDTH = "820" HEIGHT = "300" MAYSCRIPT></XMP>
<PARAM NAME=scriptable  VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="name" VALUE="keyboard">
<PARAM NAME=CODEBASE VALUE="/Kiosk">
<PARAM NAME =CODE VALUE = "KeyboardApplet.class">
<PARAM NAME=ARCHIVE VALUE="applets/keyboard.jar">
<PARAM NAME="type" VALUE="application/x-java-applet;version=1.1.2">
</APPLET>
</NOEMBED></OBJECT>
In the JavaScript call the java functions by the docment->applet name->function
   function enterTextString() {
        if (parent.SourceElementType == 'userid') { parent.frames[parent.SourceFrame].document.forms[parent.SourceFormIdx].userId.value = document.keyboard.getShadowText(); }
        parent.frames[parent.SourceFrame].document.forms[parent.SourceFormIdx].elements[parent.SourceElementIdx].value = document.keyboard.getTextValue();
        rollFrame();
        document.keyboard.resetTextValue();
     InputState = "";
     IsOpen = false;
In the Applet have a public method for the javascript to access
  public String getTextValue() { String outValue = this.textValue;
                                  this.resetTextValue();
                                  return outValue;  }