Intel Animation for Java* Package Known Problems

Beta 1.3.0

The following are known bugs or deviations from the documented behavior for this Beta release.

• Display mode limitations: This release of Intel Animation for Java* package works with 8-bit and 16-bit (555) display modes only. It does not support 24-bit color or 16-bit (565) color mode.
• HorizontalFlipEffect and RotateXEffect may cause visual distortion on Pentium^® processors with MMXÔ technology.
• GameSample1 can have audio enabled/disabled using the parameter AUDIO set to ON or OFF. GameSample1 cannot run locally (loaded with file://versus http://) due to a security limitation on the current implementation of the Java Virtual Machine associated with loading local .AU files. This issue is being addressed and will be resolved in a future implementation of the VM.
• The RotateYEffect may cause some sprite distortion at certain angles.
• RDX errors may occur when using effects on a sprite that has not been applied to a surface. Note: This is not recommended usage. Sprites should be applied to a surface via setDestination(surface) prior to the application of effects to the sprite.
• Effects classes don't check for some invalid input parameters when constructed. Input parameters are fully checked when calling setParams().
• Effects class setParams() will throw OutOfRangeException if the parameters cause the sprite width or height to become very near to zero. This happens when setting a RotateXEffect to 90 degrees or when Affine2DEffect parameters shearX == shearY.
• When running Intel Animation for Java applets under the Sun JDK AppletViewer you will notice some messages about failure to load msWrap.dll. Just ignore these as they are debug output that will be removed from the final release.
• While running Intel Animation for Java applets in Netscape Navigator* 3.0, you will may observe the following message in the Java Console '# security exception : link:msWrap'. You can safely ignore this message.
• Running an animation applet in Symantec Cafe may result in this error message: "This program has performed an illegal operation and will be shutdown". If you click on Details, you will see "JAVAW caused a stack fault in module DINO2D.DLL at 0137:02818eef". The workaround is to run the applet
  in either Sun's JDK 1.0.2 appletviewer or Microsoft Internet Explorer.

This page was last updated on Mar 5th, 1997.

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