Opera 7.60p4: Java woes
Tais M. Hansen
Opera 7.60p4 seems to have issues with Java. Can't log into my bank anymore.
The login applet keeps crashing on me. Worked fine with p3.
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Regards,
Tais M. Hansen
OSD
Steven V. Gunhouse
> Hi,
>
> Opera 7.60p4 seems to have issues with Java. Can't log into my bank
> anymore.
> The login applet keeps crashing on me. Worked fine with p3.
>
Does Java work at all? Did you install the same package version (as in,
Qt-static or shared)?
Here's a page which I use to test Java:
http://www.verostko.com/turing-f0.html Not a very complex applet, should
work in any version of Java, though th fact that there are 11 applets on
that page may tax slower machines.
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Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
> Hi,
>
> Opera 7.60p4 seems to have issues with Java. Can't log into my bank anymore.
> The login applet keeps crashing on me. Worked fine with p3.
>
Tools->Advanced->Java Console
Are there any error messages?
eirik
Tais M. Hansen
>> Opera 7.60p4 seems to have issues with Java. Can't log into my bank
>> anymore. The login applet keeps crashing on me. Worked fine with p3.
> Tools->Advanced->Java Console
> Are there any error messages?
Yes.
java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.ibm.cbt.thinclient.netbank.LogonApplet.start(LogonApplet.java:394)
at com.opera.PluginPanel.startApplet(PluginPanel.java:302)
at com.opera.PluginPanel.run(PluginPanel.java:429)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Tais M. Hansen
> Does Java work at all? Did you install the same package version (as in,
> Qt-static or shared)?
Same package I've always used ... 5-shared-qt.
> Here's a page which I use to test Java:
> http://www.verostko.com/turing-f0.html Not a very complex applet, should
> work in any version of Java, though th fact that there are 11 applets on
> that page may tax slower machines.
The Java Console gives me the following error:
java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 24
at java.lang.String.charAt(Unknown Source)
at com.opera.PluginContext.getImage(PluginContext.java:127)
at java.applet.Applet.getImage(Unknown Source)
at java.applet.Applet.getImage(Unknown Source)
at marquee1.init(marquee1.java)
at com.opera.PluginPanel.run(PluginPanel.java:425)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
At first I just saw one big grey box where the applets are supposed to be
running. Dragging the java console window over it and away again removed
the grey box and now I see scrolling yellow zeros and ones.
Tais M. Hansen
> Opera 7.60p4 seems to have issues with Java. Can't log into my bank
> anymore. The login applet keeps crashing on me. Worked fine with p3.
It does pop up a Java Security requester (A signed applet is requesting
additional privileges...). I click Accept and then it writes "Applet
Crashed" in the applet.
Tried with both Java 1.4.2 and 1.5.0 under Opera 7.60p4.
Tais M. Hansen
> Opera 7.60p4 seems to have issues with Java. Can't log into my bank
> anymore. The login applet keeps crashing on me. Worked fine with p3.
Changed Opera to identify as Opera instead of the default MSIE 6.0 (which
I've always thought was a half-heartedly decision and borderline stupid
default).
The login applet no longer crashes and I can log in again. Not a pretty
sight though. My bank account can't be that bad. It must be a bug in Java
or something. :D
Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
As long as you don't get any SecurityException (or whatever they're
called) in the Java Console, I would think that the "additional
privileges" isn't the problem. A NullPointerException in
com.ibm.cbt.thinclient.netbank.LogonApplet.start doesn't tell me much
about what really goes wrong, though...
eirik
Eirik Byrkjeflot Anonsen
> Tais M. Hansen wrote:
>
>> Opera 7.60p4 seems to have issues with Java. Can't log into my bank
>> anymore. The login applet keeps crashing on me. Worked fine with p3.
>
> Changed Opera to identify as Opera instead of the default MSIE 6.0 (which
> I've always thought was a half-heartedly decision and borderline stupid
> default).
>
Ah, I see. Probably the applet checks for the browser version and
then does something that isn't possible on the current system. That
explains the NullPointerException.
> The login applet no longer crashes and I can log in again. Not a pretty
> sight though. My bank account can't be that bad. It must be a bug in Java
> or something. :D
>
>
There are some problems with java applets and layout from the simple
fact that some things actually look different with different java
implementations. So some items have different sizes on e.g. windows
and linux, thus breaking the pixel-by-pixel layout that is the typical
way of designing java applets.
Many applets I've seen makes edit fields that are so small I can only
see the top two or three pixels of the characters I type...
eirik
Tais M. Hansen
>> The login applet no longer crashes and I can log in again. Not a pretty
>> sight though. My bank account can't be that bad. It must be a bug in Java
>> or something. :D
> There are some problems with java applets and layout from the simple
> fact that some things actually look different with different java
> implementations. So some items have different sizes on e.g. windows
> and linux, thus breaking the pixel-by-pixel layout that is the typical
> way of designing java applets.
> Many applets I've seen makes edit fields that are so small I can only
> see the top two or three pixels of the characters I type...
Sure. Many applets have various layout issues, often because of lazy
programmers. But in this case, I was just making a humorous comment about
the current state of my bank account. :)