MarvinSketch: Apple OS with Firefox browser problem

User 6bec43dc6c

29-06-2009 12:59:03

Hi,

We are using MarvinSketch for our public facing chemistry search.

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/chebi/advancedSearchForward.do

One of our users has reported problems visualising the Applet. It loads up the mouse pointer seems misaligned to the buttons. I've included a snapshot image of the problem.

Her OS and Java details:

Firefox: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; de; rv:1.9.0.11)
Gecko/2009060214 Firefox/3.0.11

Java: java version "1.6.0-dp"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0-dp-b88-34)
Java HotSpot(TM) Core VM (build 1.6.0-b88-17-release, interpreted mode,
sharing)

OS: Mac OS X 10.4.11

I load up the applet using JavaScripts provided by ChemAxon (marvin.js):
          <script LANGUAGE="JavaScript1.1">
          <!--
          msketch_name = "MSketch";
          msketch_begin("applets/marvinSketch", 400, 350);
          
          msketch_param("mol", document.getElementById('advancedSearchFT_structure').value);
          
          
          msketch_param("autoscale", "true");
          msketch_end();
//-->

Any ideas what the issue could be?

Thanks,
Paula
          </script>

ChemAxon 7c2d26e5cf

29-06-2009 15:31:41

We could not reproduce this issue.

We have tested it on similar platform although it is not exactly the same configuration.

Mac OS X 10.4.11 (Intel), Firefox 3.0.11, Java 1.5.0_19.

I wonder that your user runs applet with 1.6. As I know, stable version of 1.6 Java is not available for OS X 10.4. Probably he/she uses an unoffical Java or a developer version of an unreleased Apple Java.

I recommend to use only the stable version of Java with the applet. Currently 1.5.0_19 is the latest stable Java in OS X 10.4 (that you can install it via the Software update center).

By the way, I think the problem may be that the applet does not fill the whole space that browser provides to the applet. I think it can be a refreshing issue in that certain Java version.