148958 - applet won't resize

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Leon Chiver]

i'm using a page which contains an applet. if some button is clicked i would
like to resize that applet. 
that for i wrote a javascript method which gets the applet object, and sets the
width and the height. but it does work only in ie. am i doing something wrong or
doesn't mozilla handle this?

here is a quick code snippet, i will attach an example later.

<applet class=..... id='applet'>
</applet>
<button onClick='javascript:resizeApplet();'>Resize</button>

<script type='text/javascript'>
function resizeApplet() {
  var applet = document.getElementById('applet');
  applet.width=100;
  applet.height=100;
</script>

Comment 1

[Leon Chiver]

Attachment: testcase zip file containing a html file and an applet

Comment 2

[Ian Neal]

Which mozilla builds and java versions is this against?

Comment 3

[Leon Chiver]

Huh, forgot to specify mozilla + java version details:
-mozilla 1.0rc3
-jdk1.4.0
-redhat linux 7.3, windows2000

Comment 4

[Nicolás Lichtmaier]

I've tried to change the resizing to use CSS, and discovered another bug.
There's no style member in applet objects!

It's bug 148958.

Comment 5

[Pauli Borodulin]

I can verify.

Mozilla 1.2b (Build ID 2002101612), Sun Java 1.4.0, Windows 2000 with SP2.

Applet calls resize(), but Mozilla doesn't seem to care about it.
I used OBJECT-element.

Comment 6

[Ian Ibbotson]

Possibly related: I've been trying to use percetages to make an applet fill the
entire frame as in
<applet codebase="/classes" width="100%" height="100%" hspace="0" vspace="0"
align="middle" code="XDJTableApplet.class" name="ResultsApplet">

When this didn't work I resorted to javascript to try and manually set the size
of the applet. After adding debugging, it appears that the browser always calls
the applets resize method with the width and height values as set in the applet
tag. Therfore, if you manually try to resize an applet with width=500 and
height=500 set in the applet tag to 100,100 using setSize then as soon as your
call to setSize complete the browser will call resize 500,500,giving the
impression that no resize is taking place.

There seems to be a related issue that percentage size values always get passed
to the applet as zero, so no applet appears on the page when you use percentage
widths.

My tests on Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003

Hope this helps.

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Mass-reassigning bugs.

Comment 8

[Bryan Mills]

Probable dupes:
Bug 112428 java applet view does not get redrawn correctly
Bug 132978 Mozilla window shows trash when rescaling fullsize applet
Bug 148958 applet won't resize
Bug 190759 applet is not resizing after a window resize operation
Bug 266596 Java Applet resize: cannot enlarge (or shrink sometimes); ("native"
panel is fixed size).
Bug 300346 Redraw errors after resizing a window containing an applet with 100%
width and height

Comment 9

[Andy Cross]

Are there any plans to address this? I'd like not to have to use Silverlight instead. I know, I should get my hands dirty!

Comment 10

[Chris Newton]

Just confirming this is still a bug with Firefox 3.5.2 on Windows, with Sun's latest JRE (1.6).

Comment 11

[Kyle Machulis [:qdot] [:kmachulis] (INACTIVE)]

The HTML <applet> element and related java functionality was removed from Gecko in Bug 1279218. Marking related bugs as invalid.