The problem was to find a way to have a web page generated with many links to play (short) sounds. Embedding the sounds meant pre-loading a lot of media, most of which is never needed. Traditional JavaScript methods pop-up a medial player each time a link is clicked on, which is annoying and time-consuming.
The solution here is to creat my own media player in Java,
using an invisible applet on the page with a "play()"
method that can be invoked from JavaScript.
(View Source to see the JavaScript used.)
This works fine, except for a 0-10 second delay before the first sound can be played, depending on your browser version. No doubt the various media classes take time to load. Will continue to work on this!
A horse says neigh.
A dog says arrrf.
A tiger says roar.
A cow says moo.
A terminator says hasta la vista, baby.
A Sergeant Shultz says I know nothing...nothing!.
A Histology says Histology.
View JavaDocs API for PlaySnd Java class.
View PlaySnd.java source code.
View build.bat DOS commands to build this site.
View PlaySnd-MF.txt PlaySnd.jar manifest file.