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clicking on an applet?

I basically have a picture of the word "LOGIN" on a website... (asp, javascript, html)
I want this picture to change colors every few seconds... kinda like a rainbow effect...

So, I have applet code that will do this and works fine. The problem is that it is not clickable to get to a login page. Is there a way to make an applet picture clickable?

If not, is there another way to do this? Say with a timer?

Thank for your help.

This is some of my code:
<td colspan=1 align=center class="row2"><A HREF="dblogin.html">
<APPLET CODE="photoalbum.class" CODEBASE="PhotoAlbum" WIDTH=75 HEIGHT=24 align=right>
<PARAM name="developer" value="Demicron (www.demicron.se)">
<PARAM name="userinterface" value="standardui">
<PARAM name="standardui.maincolor" value="849EBD">
<PARAM name="standardui.usepausebutton" value="no">
<PARAM name="standardui.innerborderwidth" value="0">
<PARAM name="standardui.middleborderwidth" value="0">
<PARAM name="standardui.outerborderwidth" value="0">
<PARAM name="transtime" value="5000">
<PARAM name="timeout" value="12000">
<PARAM name="pause" value="5000">
<PARAM name="minframenr" value="0">
<PARAM name="bgcolor" value="849EBD">
<PARAM name="fxmod0" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image0" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginblue.jpg">
<PARAM name="fxmod1" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image1" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginpurple.jpg">
<PARAM name="fxmod2" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image2" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginred.jpg"> heli
<PARAM name="fxmod3" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image3" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginorange.jpg"> wires
<A HREF="dblogin.html"></A></APPLET>
</td>

PaulPosition

I haven't got the applet, so I couldn't test, but...

At the top of your code snippet, you open a link/anchor as such :
<td colspan=1 align=center class="row2"><A HREF="dblogin.html">

note the <A HREF="dblogin.html">

... then at the end of it all, you re-open the same tag (<A HREF="dblogin.html">) before closing it with a '</A>' The problem is, your tags aren't properly nested. Right now you have...
<td>
.......<A>
.............<APPLET>
..................<A>
..................</A>
.............</A>
........</APPLET>
</TD>

while it should be :
<td>
.......<A>
............<APPLET>
............</APPLET>
.......</A>
</td>

Re-work that and test, there's a lots of chance it will work.

Good luck

PaulPosition

Hmm, thought I might as well do it and be sure we understand each other... The code should look like this :

<td colspan=1 align=center class="row2">
<A HREF="dblogin.html">
<APPLET CODE="photoalbum.class" CODEBASE="PhotoAlbum" WIDTH=75 HEIGHT=24 align=right>
<PARAM name="developer" value="Demicron (www.demicron.se)">
<PARAM name="userinterface" value="standardui">
<PARAM name="standardui.maincolor" value="849EBD">
<PARAM name="standardui.usepausebutton" value="no">
<PARAM name="standardui.innerborderwidth" value="0">
<PARAM name="standardui.middleborderwidth" value="0">
<PARAM name="standardui.outerborderwidth" value="0">
<PARAM name="transtime" value="5000">
<PARAM name="timeout" value="12000">
<PARAM name="pause" value="5000">
<PARAM name="minframenr" value="0">
<PARAM name="bgcolor" value="849EBD">
<PARAM name="fxmod0" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image0" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginblue.jpg">
<PARAM name="fxmod1" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image1" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginpurple.jpg">
<PARAM name="fxmod2" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image2" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginred.jpg"> heli
<PARAM name="fxmod3" value="shatterfxmod">
<PARAM name="image3" value="PhotoAlbum/titleblock_loginorange.jpg"> wires
</APPLET>
</A>
</td>

TimYates

If that doesn't work (which it might not do, as I believe the applet will catch the mouse click event, and not the browser), you will need to add a mouse handler to your applet to catch the mouseclick, and redirect the page it is loaded on...

cmrka

ASKER

No, this does not work... tried this already & tried it again...

Can you give me some example of the mouse click event code?

Thanks again..

TimYates

In it's simplest form:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.*;

public class Applet1 extends Applet
{
public boolean mouseDown( Event e, int x, int y )
{
try
{
getAppletContext().showDocument( new java.net.URL( "https://www.experts-exchange.com" ) ) ;
}
catch( MalformedURLException ex )
{
ex.printStackTrace() ;
}
return true ;
}
}

cmrka

ASKER

This may be a silly question, but I am a newbie at this...

Can I put this code directly in an asp page?
Do I have to do anything special?

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cmrka

ASKER

ahh.. I see..

no, I don't have the source code for the applet..
I guess that option is out...

Thanks for the help anyway...

TimYates

Awww...you didn't have to accept the answer (as I didn't really help you)

Good luck with it anyway!!

Tim