181894 - java applet does not work correctly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core Graveyard :: Java: OJI, defect)

Description

[beanladen]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

This is a problem on a page with java servlets, so
no direct link. 


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.goto given url
2.click on 'Freiwillig Versicherte' (left menu)
3.click on 'VBL extra'
4.click on 'Angebotsrechner' => applet should appear
5.put in our annual income where 'Entgelt 200' appears => (btw,should show 2001)
6.try to select one of the two nonactive carets => does not work
7.click on 'Berechnen' (compute) => nothing happens
Actual Results:  
a) year after 'Entgelt' shows 200
b) carets cannot be selected
c) 'Berechnen' function does not start
d) number typed into field is partly hidden


Expected Results:  
a) show 2201
b) carets should be selectable
c) compute function should popup a window with the result
d) number should be shown completely

Java 2 plugin 1.4.0-b92 mixed mode

All of the functions (except the partly hidden number) work on
the 1.2b Solaris version.

Comment 1

[beanladen]

oh,URL was changed, repaired...

Comment 2

[Olivier Cahagne]

seems to wfm, I entered 1970 as first date, then income 'Engelt 2001' as 20000
and clicking on 'Beretch' opened a popup on both Mozilla 20021123 and IE6 using
JRE 1.4.1_01.

Comment 3

[Kenneth Herron]

I'm using nightly 2002112908 on linux. The applet basically works for me, though
it has several layout problems. When I enter a number into the text box next to
"Entgelt 2001", for example, only the top half of each character is visible.

Clicking the "Berechnen" button just yielded an error message the first time I
clicked on it. I changed the date fields next to "Geburtsdatum" to be my
birthday, clicked "Berechnen" again, and the applet opened another window
displaying some results.

I believe this applet is laying out its widgets based strictly on screen
coordinates (e.g. the "entgelt 2001" text box must be xxx pixels high) without
regard to the size of the font being used at runtime. Java applets are supposed
to adjust widgets & such based on the current, and it contains support for doing
this. But some of the early java interface builders didn't do this, instead
producing code that always drew widgets at fixed positions & sizes.

I don't think there's anything mozilla can do about this.

Comment 4

[beanladen]

Kenneth, please read the report carefully. Mozilla DOES
do something about it, namely on Solaris, where it works
nearly perfectly. So your resolution is invalid. Reopening.

Comment 5

[beanladen]

Tried Mozilla1.2, nothing changed. But after upgrading
to java 1.4.1_01, this applet works like a charm.
Marking WFM.