Juan,
On Sat, 2007-12-08 at 12:43 -0700, juan restrepo wrote:
> Is there a way to embed a java applet, including gui controls?
> I will settle for any elegant or otherwise solution.
Since I haven't seen anyone else offer a solution, have you tried using
a hyperref with a "run" command? All you need is a script that will
launch something to play your java applet. It isn't exactly "embedded",
in that it runs on top of your presentation, but if you have an external
program that allows you to control the geometry of the applet window,
etc., it should work. I don't use java so can't help directly, but I use
this to "embed" movies all the time. Here's my brief howto for movies,
which must be pretty easy to adapt for audio, java, or anything else you
can launch from a command line:
In your latex source there is, for example:
\href{run:movie_script.sh}{Click Here}
where movie_script.sh is a shell script to launch an external viewer,
e.g. a file with the single line:
mplayer -geometry 30%:100% -nofs -xy 2 -loop 0 movie.mpg
Then you need:
In ~/.mailcap:
application/x-sh; /bin/sh %s
to invoke sh to run your shell script. You can also use /bin/bash or
some other shell interpreter. You also need to associate the .sh
ending with a shellscript:
In ~/.mime.types:
application/x-sh sh
[There is a slight security problem with the above, in that it sets your
system up to automatically execute any .sh file, which could be
dangerous if it is malicious. If you are worried about this, then only
add the mimetype entry when you need it (tedious) or use an obscure file
suffix, e.g.,
latex: \href{run:movie_script.my123movies}{Click Here}
scriptname: movie_script.my123movies
mailcap: application/x-shmy123mov123movies; /bin/sh %s
mime.type: application/x-shmy123movies my123movies
]
As an alternative, if you don't need a detailed script to do what you
want, you can launch any file directly by associating the appropriate
mimetype, e.g.,
In ~/.mailcap:
video/*; mplayer [options] %s
You will obviously need to teach .mime.types about suffices for video
files. Then you can run the movie directly:
\href{run:mymovie.mpg}{Click Here}
Finally, there are various movie or multimedia packages out there, which
I've never got to work under linux and/or haven't tried.
HTH
Steve
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