Re: How to make animation????

David Riley wrote:
> 
> In article <BaCEoYC98$0zE...@xemu.demon.co.uk>, Dave Bird---St Hippo of
> Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> writes
> >OK, how about this for really dim.  I have a version of MSIE
> >with a true Java virtual machine.  (Really dim) would this
> >be better? would the code be different??  In theory I prefer
> >netscape, but I need to upload a comaparably new version.
> I'm writing a java applet to display ascii animations as

I'm working on a similar project (but I have to learn Java first... I
bought a book about it a couple of days ago and have got half way
through it now, so just wait a few days....)

> I've not been able to get the javascript ones to display
> correctly in IExploder.

I looked at some animations in explorer once, then I tried to make one
that would work there.... I found that the major problem was that the
text box used a proportional font and that it removed any "unnecessary"
space characters.... :(
(If you can find a way to change that.....)

My almost acceptable attempt can be found here:

http://jota.sm.luth.se:80/~e93-vkn/pics/ascii/explorerexperiment.html

(where I have "approximated" the space charachters with colons)

> The main disadvantage in using java
> is that it is slow downloading the animations, (they are
> stored as text files on the server) which is taking about
> two minutes for a small (7 frames) demo.

:(

> 
> I will make the applet available to download when it is
> finished. If anyone is interested you can try the current
> version with some of my poor animation attempts at:
>         http://www.dmriley.demon.co.uk/java/asciitv.htm

unfortunately I can't seem to get your program to work very well... :(

> Any comments and suggestions by email are welcome.
> I've only tested it on exploder 3.02a so I'm not sure it will
> work with everything.

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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