applet "interrupts" webpage navigation

[boku.ronin]

hi all,

i've written a small applet that runs next to the browser and provides
kind of a notepad-functionality (logging the webpages the user is
visiting).
whenever the user changes webpage, the applet is (of course
)stopped/destroyed and then reinitialized. so far, so good; i've
written the applet as singleton so that it preserves its data between
the reloads.

my problem is that the applet seems to temporarily "steal" the focus
from the browser (when it is stopped and reinitialized), interrupting
the navigation to the new webpage; i.e., the user usually has to press
the navigation-buttons several times before the browser goes to the new
webpage.
An example: if I'm on a webpage and want to go back to the previous one
(and i'm thus pressing the back-button of the browser), i see that the
applet is re-initialized (appears that the browser has notified the JVM
of an imminent webpage change), but the browser then remains on the OLD
webpage (i.e., does not load the new webpage).

any idea how i could solve this problem ? (i've tried to insert a
Thread.sleep command in the stop/destroy function of the applet, hoping
it would pause the applet long enough to give the browser time to go to
the new webpage before the applet is reloaded, but it didnìt work...)

any help is really appreciated...
Thanks in advance,
Chris

 

[Andrew Thompson]

hi all,

i've written a small applet..

...about which you have made multiple separate posts.
You already have responses on those other posts.

Please refrain form multi-posting, and avail yourself
of your web-interfaces' offer to 'separate multiple
groups with commas' (X-post).

Andrew T.