Re: Applet on a Mac

Posted by ctrueden on May 14, 2007; 7:35pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/problem-with-showing-16bit-greyscale-image-tp3699477p3699479.html

Hi Jon,

I tried it, and I have the same problems on Mac OS X (behavior in
Firefox and Safari is as you describe). I also see the problems with
the ImageJ applet on the ImageJ web site.

Normally, this behavior is controlled with the
apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar property (set to true to use the Mac menu
bar rather than Windows-style menus beneath the application's title
bar).

I did some searching but was unable to find much; the closest I found
was this Mozilla bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132594

It seems like something similar is going on with the ImageJ applet.

-Curtis

On 5/12/07, Jon Harman <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear list members,
>
> I have written an applet using ImageJ with my plugin compiled in.  It
> works for me on a PC using IE, Firefox, or Opera.  Someone with a Mac
> reported to me that it doesn't work on a Mac using Firefox.  Since I
> don't have a Mac I can't check this.  I wonder if some on this group
> with more experience than I could look at these two emails and advise me
> if this is a real problem or maybe just confusion on the part of the
> user.  The ImageJ version of the Applet is 1.38j.
>
> [His first email]:
> A window pops up, with what looks like a few buttons for image editing,
> but there are no menus.  So for instance there's no way to load a file.
> I got far enough to convince myself I wasn't just missing something, but
> I didn't try a lot of debugging . . . it could be as simple as some
> security setting I suppose.  I can try and get more specifics later.
>
>
> [Follow-up email]:
> First, I found that it does work in Safari, although it looks a bit
> odd.  I think the problem is in the way menus are done in OS X (in the
> same menu bar along the top of the screen for all applications) as
> opposed to the way they are done in nearly ever other operating system
> (in the same window as the application).  When it works in Safari, there
> are many menu options, some with duplicate names (like "File") but it
> works.  In Firefox, no new menus appear and the duplicated ones cease to
> function.
>
> I've attached several screenshots from trying to use it in Firefox
> (2.0.0.3) and Safari (2.0.4) in OS X 10.4.9.
> [I've deleted the screenshots.  They show that Safari has two sets of
> menus, the second set being ImageJ menus.  Firefox has only one set of
> menus, not including any ImageJ menus.]
>
> For java:
> [wotan:~] bclee% java -version
> java version "1.5.0_07"
> Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_07-164)
> Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_07-87, mixed mode, sharing)
>
>
> My applet is at:
> http://www.dstretch.com/IJapplet/ImageJApplet.html
>
> Thanks for any help.
> Jon
>