Re: returning values from with-java-applet

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:41:24 GMT
 Martin Simmons <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 13:55:35 -0800, "Ben Olasov"
><[email protected]> said:
>
>  Ben> Is there a way to launch a java applet from with-java-applet, 
>  Ben> collect several strings in the applet's input fields and return
>  Ben> them to the Lisp environment?  I've looked at the twistdown-tree 
>  Ben> example and don't find in it a way of doing this (which may be 
>  Ben> my fault).  If with-java-applet isn't the right approach for this,
>  Ben> are there other ways (perhaps jlinker?) that someone could
>  Ben> recommend?    The Lisp/OS/hardware environment
>  Ben> for this is ACL 6.0/Solaris 8/Sun Blade 2000.
>
>  Ben> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>AFAIK, you can't directly return strings from a Java applet.  

That is how it seems - thanks for clearing this up.

Ben

> Instead, you
>need to make the applet request a new document from the server, passing the
>data in some form such as an encodes URL.
>
>Google for showDocument for examples.
>
>__Martin