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Zarl: /* PTViewer Java applet */

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‎PTViewer Java applet

Zarl: /* PTViewer Java applet */ link to Create_a_custom_ptviewer_jar_file page

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‎PTViewer Java applet: link to Create_a_custom_ptviewer_jar_file page

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Bruno: categorised

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The term '''Java''' could refer to any of several things:

* The general purpose object-oriented [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_programming_language java programming language] originally devised by Sun Microsystems with an emphasis on portability between platforms.
* A particular [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_virtual_machine java virtual machine] allowing you to run java applications. There are several of these provided by various vendors.
* A [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applet java applet] running as a '''web-browser plug-in''' (which requires the installation of a particular kind of '''java virtual machine''').

'''Java''' is not the same as '''javascript''', a scripting language now called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript ECMAScript], which is generally used in web-pages to cause pop-up windows, flashing lights and other annoyances.

== Java Panorama Tools ==

Some of the original [[Panorama Tools]] by [[Helmut Dersch]] are written in Java and require a '''java virtual machine''' to run:

* [[PTPicker]], the original [[GUI front-ends|graphical front-end]] for selecting control points.
* [[PTEditor]], a tool for extracting, editing and re-inserting [[Rectilinear Projection|rectilinear]] views from [[Equirectangular Projection|equirectangular]] images.
* [[PTCrypt]], a tool for encrypting [[JPEG]] images to make them viewable by [[PTViewer]] only in their original web-page context.

Note that none of these tools ever had source-code released and are only available in [[JAR]] archive form, they are unlikely to have future bug-fixes or be developed further. You can run them with varying degrees of success on various platforms using [http://java.sun.com/ Sun JRE], Microsoft JVM, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCJ GNU GJC], [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ IBM J2ME] etc..

If you are having memory problems running JAVA tools there is a tutorial called [[how to allocate enough RAM for PTEditor]] that you may find useful.

== PTViewer Java applet ==

Also created by [[Helmut Dersch]], [[PTViewer]] remains one of the highest quality applet viewers for [[Equirectangular Projection|equirectangular]] panoramas. [[PTViewer]] has available source-code, so it is still under active development.

There are some other [[Java software|java applets for viewing panoramas]].

== Browser plug-in issues ==

To use the [[PTViewer]] [[JAR]] applet in a web-page, the client web-browser needs to have a '''Java virtual machine''' available to run it.

Previously, this was almost universally the case, however Microsoft have stopped distributing their implementation with Internet Explorer (though many OEM sellers of Windows systems sell machines with Sun Java already installed) - So you can no longer guarantee that Java is installed.

Sun Java is a [http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp free download from Sun], the download is about 15 MegaBytes and the installation is straightforward even for inexperienced users.
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Bruno: link to java software

2005-07-13T11:32:34Z

link to java software

Bruno: link to allocating ram

2005-07-13T11:04:37Z

link to allocating ram

Bruno: other pages link to JAR, so can this

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		+	The appearance of panoramas viewed with PTViewer can be customized, extensions can add specialized functions and it is also possible to [[create a custom ptviewer jar file]] that contains every needed element.

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 == PTViewer Java applet ==
-Also created by [[Helmut Dersch]], [[PTViewer]] remains one of the highest quality applet viewers for [[Equirectangular Projection|equirectangular]] panoramas.  [[PTViewer]] has available source-code, so it is still under active development.
+Also created by [[Helmut Dersch]], [[PTViewer]] remains one of the highest quality applet viewers for [[Equirectangular Projection|equirectangular]] panoramas.  [[PTViewer]] has available source-code, so it is still under active development. The appearance of panoramas viewed with PTViewer can be customised, extensions can add specialized functions and it is also possible to [[create a custom ptviewer jar file]] that contains every needed element.
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-The appearance of panoramas viewed with PTViewer can be customized, extensions can add specialized functions and it is also possible to [[create a custom ptviewer jar file]] that contains every needed element.
 There are some other [[Java software|java applets for viewing panoramas]].

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 * [[PTCrypt]], a tool for encrypting [[JPEG]] images to make them viewable by [[PTViewer]] only in their original web-page context.
-Note that none of these tools ever had source-code released and are only available in [[JAR]] archive form, they are unlikely to have bug-fixes or be developed further.  You can run them with varying degrees of success on various platforms using [http://java.sun.com/ Sun JRE], Microsoft JVM, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCJ GNU GJC], [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ IBM J2ME] etc..
+Note that none of these tools ever had source-code released and are only available in [[JAR]] archive form, they are unlikely to have future bug-fixes or be developed further.  You can run them with varying degrees of success on various platforms using [http://java.sun.com/ Sun JRE], Microsoft JVM, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCJ GNU GJC], [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ IBM J2ME] etc..
 == PTViewer Java applet ==

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 * [[PTCrypt]], a tool for encrypting [[JPEG]] images to make them viewable by [[PTViewer]] only in their original web-page context.
-Note that none of these tools ever had source-code released, they are unlikely to have bug-fixes or be developed further.  You can run them with varying degrees of success on various platforms using [http://java.sun.com/ Sun JRE], Microsoft JVM, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCJ GNU GJC], [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ IBM J2ME] etc..
+Note that none of these tools ever had source-code released and are only available in [[JAR]] archive form, they are unlikely to have bug-fixes or be developed further.  You can run them with varying degrees of success on various platforms using [http://java.sun.com/ Sun JRE], Microsoft JVM, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GCJ GNU GJC], [http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/ IBM J2ME] etc..
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 == Browser plug-in issues ==
-To use [[PTViewer]] in a web-page, the client web-browser needs to have a '''Java virtual machine''' available to run it.
+To use the [[PTViewer]] [[JAR]] applet in a web-page, the client web-browser needs to have a '''Java virtual machine''' available to run it.
 Previously, this was almost universally the case, however Microsoft have stopped distributing their implementation with Internet Explorer (though many OEM sellers of Windows systems sell machines with Sun Java already installed) - So you can no longer guarantee that Java is installed.
 Sun Java is a [http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp free download from Sun], the download is about 15 MegaBytes and the installation is straightforward even for inexperienced users.