Slow Animation on top of Java Applet

[mark4man]

Put together a real nice animation of a moving rocket ship; & wanted it to be placed on a dynamic space background. Found a great free Java Applet entitled "Flying Stars", where a field of stars moves laterally across a black background (in the same direction as my animated ship)!

Trouble is, when I assign my animated .gif to the Applet code & preview in my browser, for some reason, the animation plays very, very slow (i.e., instead of the frames playing every .1 second, they play every 4 or 5 seconds.)

Was hoping someone here could provide some insight (& hopefully some answers.)

Thanks in advance,

mark4man

[zachzach]

well this acually is a JAVA answer, but i have a DHTML style soulution:

do you have frontpage?
if you do, place the applet where you want in on your page, then inclose the img (....<img src=...>....) in a div(....<div>....</div>....) and make the divs style(....<div >>>>>>>>STYLE="..."<<<<<<<<.....>........</div>......)

style="position: absolute;"

then just go to the div and a special mouse img will arpear, then click and drag till you get it where you want it

there you go!

if u dont have frontpage or dreamweaver, you can just use a WYSIWYG(what you see is what you get) editor
dont use note pad you be going back and forth from the page to the text and it'll get messy

thats it!

[mark4man]

zachzach,

Thanks.

I do have Dreamweaver MX . . . but I'm not following your coding.

This is the applet code in question:

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<applet code="StarField.class" name="StarField" width="300" height="200"><param name="LogoPic" value="wa.gif">
</applet>

<p align="center"><font face="arial" size="-2">Free Java applets provided by</font><br>
<font face="arial, helvetica" size="-2"><a href="http://javascriptkit.com">JavaScript
Kit</a></font></p>
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"wa.gif is the image displayed in the preview (on the site where the free applet is available.) I replaced that with mine.

Not sure where to go from here.

Thanks again,

mark4man

[zachzach]

you know what, i think i acually saw that applet
weird coincedence
even weirder:
didn't work for me eather

see what i did to make it work, im asuming you know what divs are, is just make the "style" proporty(<div b]style=""[/b]>)
just make it: style="position:absolute"

good luck-hope it works
zach

[mark4man]

zach,

I had to move beyond that, 'cause I came up with more graphic content.

I found a script of a traveling star field sized as an entire page, which I'm using as a background of sorts.

I placed my graphic content on top, in Layers.

Now all I have to figure out is how to center the Layers using CSS.

Thanks,

mark4man