Using a Java Applet in CiviCRM Extension

Question

Does anyone have any idea how to get a Java Applet to work in a CiviCRM Extension? In particular, I'm trying to load the QZ-Print applet.

The first problem I'm having is getting the location of the jar. Currently the code to embed the applet is (where the applet is in www/qz-print/ dir on the localhost):

<applet id="qz" name="QZ Print Plugin" code="qz.PrintApplet.class" archive="/qz-print/qz-print.jar" width="100" height="100"></applet>

The code is in the main page TPL file for my extension. This seems to (sometimes) completely hang the web page/browser... On the occasion where it does load the page, I get the following: "SecurityException JAR should not contain JNLP-INF/APPLICATION.JNLP".

Anyways, I'm at a loss for what to do right now. Any help on getting an applet to work with an extension would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE: So I looked into this and realized that I need to load the JNLP file. So I'm doing that now. HOWEVER, I'm having trouble getting the path to the jnlp/jar file. When working with an extension paths aren't typical.

How does one go about getting the path to the JAR/JNLP within an extension?

Thanks!

Answer 1

It looks like the archive path is incorrect. You can make it an absolute path by assigning it to the template from php:

$path = CRM_Extension_System::singleton()->getMapper()->keyToBasePath('myextension');
$this->assign('basePath', $path);

Your archive url can then begin with the smarty variable {$basePath}