He means DIV tag.
http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/_DIV.html

lex

That was the first page I looked at. I didn't point to it yesterday
because I forgot where it was.

Yup. No way around it.

*shrug*

It is what it is. Although, for what it's worth, I completely
understand why you posted that. :) The reason I'd pay attention to
MS's recommendations is because they created ActiveX and a lot of
their software uses it, so they have an incentive to make ActiveX work

There is no way to circumvent the activation problem without using JS.

Except uninstalling the hotfix that patched IE to require activation,
and that only works with IE6 and the patch would probably (as M$
mentions) just get reinstalled later as part of a "rollup".

Not sure, actually...

Yes.

Personally, I think M$ could have ponied up the licensing fees and
avoided all this, considering that they're worth billions of dollars. :(

I don't really know, I'm afraid.  If the Live Connect guide I'm looking at is
at all relevant (I don't know for sure that you are usng Live Connect, or even
if LC still exists !), then the answer to (b) /should/ be "yes".  Other than
that, I'm guessing, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if the answer to all
three questions was "yes" -- but that's only because that's how I'd have
designed it, not because I know how the JS integration actually works.

(BTW (c) confused me a little, I'm assuming that you have just choosen
"getClass" as the arbitrary name for a variable, you're not attempting to call
the pipe object's getClass() method.)

It might sound silly, but is there any chance that your applet's "pipe" field
actually /is/ null ?  It's worth adding some tracing or something just to
double check...

The default for classes, fields, and methods is so-called "package private",
which means that the class, field, or method isn't supposed to be visible from
outside its own package -- JS doesn't /have/ to honour that (it could just
ignore it, since Java protections don't apply if you are using JNI), but I'd
guess that the designers would attempt to mimic Java semantics as far as they
could and so they won't expose non-public members.

Sounds good.  If you want to double-check, there's a system property
("java.vendor") you can check from your applet code to see the maker of the JVM
you are actually running in (as opposed to the one that's installed and you
/hope/ you are running in ;-).  There's an example here:
   http://www.javaworld.com/javatips/jw-javatip53.html

One other thing.  I have just found this on the Web.  It's clearly long out of
date, but it may still be relevant or even correct.
   http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/web/jscript/ch19_07.html
If it is then that may explain your problems too.  (Easy way to check: run your
applet under FireFox and see what changes...)

   -- chris

Hi Chris,

{A brief recap} I'm the guy that knows very little of Java/Javascript/html
and have been wanting to open up a socket with Applets back to my VMS server
and interact with the html/Javascript form. . .

I said: -

On the off chance you (and others) have absolutely nothing better to do this
week-end, I have followed through on my threat to publish the code I've been
working on all this time. I will include the main Applet and html/Javascript
here but the wrapping and formatting will really screw it up so if anyone's
has a passing interest, they can find a better copy at the end of this
thread: -
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1071300

The last two post of mine 27/28 Feb have attachments and explain it all.

I think it's pretty sexy and does what I (and I can't see why not everyone
else) wants, but if you could point out any architectural disasters like
Threading Issues (Synchronization? Serializable), Memory Leaks etc I would
*really* appreciate it! I don't care if I should be using Swing (or
a.n.other) instead of AWT and I will get around to tightening up what
doesn't need to be public to private, but I more interested here in what
might be fundamentaly crap as opposed to what's not pretty. Me? I think it's
sh.t hot!

Cheers Richard Maher

CornuCopiae.java
================

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.IOException;

public class CornuCopiae extends Applet
{
   private     String      username  = "";
   private     String      password  = "";
   private     boolean     pass      = false;
   public      Tier3Socket pipe;
   public      String      stringOut = "";
   public      int         bytesIn;

   public void init()
   {
       if (!authorize())
       {
           try
            {
              getAppletContext().showDocument
                  (new URL (getCodeBase()+"accessdenied.html"),"_top");
            }
           catch (Exception e) {e.printStackTrace(); }
       }
   }

   public boolean authorize()
   {
       int    port        = Integer.parseInt(getParameter("PORT"));
       int    maxBuf      = Integer.parseInt(getParameter("MAXBUF"));
       String appl        = getParameter("APPLICATION");
String hostCharSet = getParameter("HOSTCHARSET");

       pipe = new Tier3Socket(getCodeBase().getHost(),
                              port,
                              maxBuf,
                              hostCharSet);

       System.out.println("Step 3");

       try {pipe.open();} catch (Exception e) {return false;}
       System.out.println("Step 4");

       Object parentFrame = getParent();
       while ((parentFrame != null) &&
 !(parentFrame instanceof Frame))
 {
 parentFrame = ((Component)parentFrame).getParent();
 }

       Frame creds = (Frame)parentFrame;

       Tier3Logon logon = new Tier3Logon(creds);

       requestFocus();

if (logon.logonAborted)
    {
           System.out.println("Logon Aborted");
    }
else
    {
           username = logon.inUser.getText();
           password = logon.inPass.getText();

           pass = true;
           try {pipe.handShake(username, password);}
           catch (Exception e)
               {
                 pass = false;
                 e.printStackTrace();
                 System.out.println("Logon Failed");
               }
    }

       if (pass && logon.cb.getState())
{
           Tier3Welcome welcome = new Tier3Welcome(creds, appl,
pipe.t3IdBuf);
           requestFocus();
           welcome.dispose();
}

       logon.dispose();

       System.out.println("Step 5");
       return pass;
   }

   public void sendMessage (String message)
   {
       try
       {pipe.sendMessage(message);}
       catch (IOException e)
             {return;}
   }

   public void sendUrgentData (int oob)
   {
       try
       {pipe.sendUrgentData(oob);}
       catch (IOException e)
             {return;}
   }

   public int readMessage () throws IOException
   {
       try
       {bytesIn = pipe.readMessage();}
       catch (IOException e)
             {return 0;}

       return bytesIn;
   }
   public int readMessage (int bytes) throws IOException
   {
       try
       {bytesIn = pipe.readMessage(bytes);}
       catch (IOException e)
             {return 0;}

       return bytesIn;
   }

   public String getString (int offset, int length)
   {
       try
       {stringOut = pipe.getString(offset, length);}
       catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException e)
             {return null;}

       return stringOut;
   }

   public void destroy()
   {
       try
       {pipe.close();}
       catch (IOException e)
             {e.printStackTrace();}

       super.destroy();
}

}

Example1.html
=============

<html>

 <head>

   <title>
          Example Client for Tier3 demo queue-lookup server
          Author: Richard Maher
   </title>

   <style>

   h2
   {
   color: Turquoise;
   }

   p.credits
   {
   color: Turquoise;
   }

   .green_screen
   {
   color: Lime;
   background-color: Black;
   font-family: courier;
   }

   </style>

   <script type="text/javascript">

   function enter(nextfield)
   {
      if (window.event && window.event.keyCode == 13)
         {
         nextfield.focus();
         return false;
         }
      else
         return true;
   }

   function num_only(numObj)
   {
      if (isNaN(numObj.value))
         {
         numObj.value = "";
         alert("Numeric value required");
         numObj.focus();
         return false;
         }
      else
         return true;
   }

   function job_lookup()
   {
      if (!num_only(document.getjobs.entry_number))
          return true;

      var recTypeLen = 2;
      var recType    = "";
      var msgGetInfo = "10";
      var jobInfo    = "11";
      var errorInfo  = "00";

      var zeroFill   = "0000";
      var maxRows    = "9999";
      var outPad     = "";
      var ok         = true;

      var selectRef  = document.getjobs.job_list;
      var msgEntry   = "";

      selectRef.options[0].selected=true;
      var holdHdr    = selectRef.options[0];

      while (selectRef.options.length > 0)
      {
         selectRef.remove(selectRef.options[0]);
      }
      selectRef.options[0] = holdHdr
      document.getjobs.job_list.size = 1;

      msgEntry = document.getjobs.entry_number.value;
      outPad = zeroFill.substring(0, (zeroFill.length - msgEntry.length));

      var chan = document.getElementById("CornuCopiae");
      chan.sendMessage(msgGetInfo.concat(outPad,msgEntry,maxRows));

      if (chan.readMessage(recTypeLen) != recTypeLen)
      {
         alert ("Error receiving reply from server");
         return false;
      }
      recType = chan.getString(0,recTypeLen);

      if (recType == jobInfo)
      {
          ok = process_jobs(chan);
      }
      else
      {
          if (recType == errorInfo)
          {
              ok = process_error(chan);
          }
          else
          {
              alert ("Unknown message type " + recType);
              return false;
          }
      }

      if (!ok) return false;

      document.getjobs.entry_number.focus();

      return true;
   }

   function process_error(chan)
   {
      document.getjobs.rec_count.value = 0;

      var errMsgLen  = 0;
      var errLenLen  = 3;
      var alertMsg   = "Error retrieving job entry information\n";

      if (chan.readMessage() < errLenLen)
      {
         alert ("Error receiving Error Length from server");
         return false;
      }

      errMsgLen = parseInt(chan.getString(0,errLenLen),10);
      alertMsg = alertMsg + chan.getString(errLenLen,errMsgLen);
      alert(alertMsg);

      return true;
   }

   function process_jobs(chan)
   {
      var recTypeLen = 2;
      var recType    = "";
      var jobInfo    = "11";
      var eofInfo    = "99";
      var eofLen     = 3;
      var jobMsgLen  = 109;
      var jobMsg     = "";
      var rc         = 1;
      var eofInfo    = "99";
      var selectRef  = document.getjobs.job_list;

      for (;;)
      {
         rc = rc + 1;
         if (rc < 6)
             document.getjobs.job_list.size = rc;

         if (chan.readMessage(jobMsgLen) != jobMsgLen)
         {
            alert ("Error receiving Job Information from server");
            return false;
         }

         jobMsg = chan.getString(0,4)   + "|" +
                  chan.getString(4,39)  + "|" +
                  chan.getString(43,15) + "|" +
                  chan.getString(58,31) + "|" +
                  chan.getString(89,10) + "|" +
                  chan.getString(99,10);
         selectRef.options[selectRef.options.length] = new Option (jobMsg);

         if (chan.readMessage(recTypeLen) != recTypeLen)
         {
            alert ("Error receiving reply from server");
            return false;
         }

         recType = chan.getString(0,recTypeLen);
         if (recType != jobInfo)
             break;
      }

      if (recType != eofInfo)
          return false;

      if (chan.readMessage(eofLen) != eofLen)
      {
         alert ("Error receiving reply from server");
         return false;
      }

      document.getjobs.rec_count.value = (rc - 1);

      return true;
   }

   </script>

 </head>

 <body>

   <h2>Example Client for Tier3 DEMO application server on VMS</h2><hr>

   <form name="getjobs">

       <object classid="clsid:8AD9C840-044E-11D1-B3E9-00805F499D93"
                       width= "0" height= "0" name="CornuCopiae"
id="CornuCopiae">
                               <param name="archive"     value="tier3.jar">
                               <param name="codebase"
value="http://1.2.3.6/">
                               <param name="code"
value="CornuCopiae">
                               <param name="mayscript"   value="yes">
                               <param name="scriptable"  value="true">
                               <param name="name"
value="CornuCopiae">
                               <param name="PORT"        value="1024">
                               <param name="HOSTCHARSET"
value="ISO-8859-1">
                               <param name="MAXBUF"      value="512">
                               <param name="APPLICATION" value="DEMO">

       </object>

       <br />Enter Job Entry Number [Default is All jobs]:
       <input
          type="text"
          onkeypress="return enter(document.getjobs.send)"
          name="entry_number"
          maxlength=4
          size=4
          dir="rtl"
       />

       <input
         type="button"
         onmouseup="job_lookup()"
         name="send"
         value="Get Job Info."
       />

Jobs Found:
       <input
          type="text"
          name="rec_count"
          readonly
          value="0"
          size=5
       />

       <br /><br />

       <select
          name="job_list"
          id="Job_list"
          class="green_screen"
          size=1>
       <option
          value="lovhdr"
          selected=true
          disable=true
       >
Nbr--Job-Name--------------------------------Job Status------Queue
Name----------------------Queue Type-Status----</option>
       </select>

       <br />

   </form>

   <p>
   This is an example of a browser-based, html and JavaScript,
   client interacting with a VMS hosted Tier3 Application Server
   in a connection-oriented and context-rich environment.<br /><br />

   You would have noticed that, when this page was initially displayed,
   you were immediately prompted for your VMS Username and Password.
   Once authorization is successful your credentials, and an accompanying
   Persona, are automatically made available to your 3GL User Action
   Routines each time their Server Process is chosen to perform work on
   behalf of the client. In this example, the user only gets to see those
   Print and Batch jobs that they have privileges to view. You can find
   the corresponding server code for this example (demo_uars.cob) in your
   t3$examples directory.<br /><br />

   The session and server connection are terminated when you change
   web pages or refresh this page.
   </p>

   <hr>

   <p class="credits">
   "Tier3" is a registered trademark of Tier3 Software Ltd<br />
   "CornuCopiae" is a trademark of Richard Maher
   </p>

 </body>
</html>