I've a bunch of GIFs in an JAR that load perfectly when running in an application using the JRE. However when I try to run the same with the Java Plugin in Netscape or IE, some of the images show up incorrectly with white patches in 'em. Anyone else see this problem and know how to counter it?
cheers
-Ragu
Well, as no one could answer my query, I probed it a bit and found out the reason:
The gif's in the JAR are compressed by the default jar compression algorithm. This caused 'em to be corrupted (as gif's are themselves compressed, you can't compress 'em again safely - violates some basic law I've read about somewhere)
So when adding gifs to the jar I deactivated compression by using
jar u0f x.jar images
That solves the problem.
The jar command ought to be fixed to automatically not compress files with .gif extensions.
cheers
-Ragu