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>>How can I get the tree to appear EMBEDDED onto a web >>page? >>I can get video and audio to EMBED onto a webpage, but >>not this JAVA app. >> >>Most JAVA apps do infact EMBED onto a web page, with >>your app only the "tree icon" is actually EMBEDDED. >> >>Its kind of foolish to have a new window spawn >>don't you think? >=============== >DFT Design Considerations. > >1) The DFT is primarily designed as a tool for >building a family tree website. > >(2) In order to ensure that the 'information panel' is >always in view when the mouse pointer hovers over >an individual, the DFT window cannot have scroll bars. > >(3) When you publish your tree on the web, you have no >control over the resolution of the user's monitor. >This means that the DFT program must determine the >resolution of the user's monitor and re-scale the DFT >to ensure that: >(a) it is never larger than the user's display area >(to avoid scroll bars) >and >(b) it is large enough to ensure that the font size is >legible. > >The obvious solution is therefore to rescale the DFT >to a full size window, which ensures that the DFT >display is independent of monitor resolution. > >(4) The size of an embedded Applet window must be >determined before the Applet is launched and cannot be >subsequently re-sized under program control. (This >limitation applies only to Java Applets and not to >stand-alone Java Applications) > >We now have the requirement for a fixed size embedded >Applet window and a re-sizable DFT Window, which can >only be met by launching a new window for the DFT. >(the size of the new DFT window is of course determined >by the applet before it launches the DFT window) > >(5) The main Applet window which is embedded in the >HTML code is actually the small (23x23 pixel) window >which is programmed to appear as the applet button >with the tree icon. > >I have experimented with using an 'invisible' (1X1 >pixel) embedded window which automatically launches >the new DFT >window (without the need for clicking). The drawback >of this approach is that when the DFT window is closed >and >the user is returned to the HTML page, the only way to >return to the DFT is to hit the browser's reload >button. >In practice, I did not think that this was >sufficiently user-friendly. > >I hope that the above explanation goes some way to >justifying my approach. > >Regards, >Michael Horey
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