Posted by Graham Titman on 19/04/2019 13:40:55:
Is there a easy way to get Cam Calc to work with a up to date browser firefox or opera.Thanks Graham
Which Cam Calc do you mean Graham? A quick search on the web found one belonging to Westmer, previously available as a program, now only available as a programming service, POA.
There's another discussed on ModelEngineerMaker that looks to have gone through various implementations, some of which are certain dead-ends.
Or this web-based effort, which is hasn't been updated for 11 years and wants long obsolete versions of Internet Explorer or Firefox2. I tried it and it works OK up until it tries to load a Java applet, which it can't find. That's certainly because <APPLET> is itself obsolete and modern browsers only respond to it by throwing a warning message. The current HTML language reference says:
"Important Note:
There is now very limited applet support in most modern browsers, as they no longer support the NPAPI plugin required for showing Java applets. This page exists as a reference only."
It was possible to reactivate NPAPI in Firefox53 as a temporary fix, but NPAPI was discontinued entirely in Firefox54 about 18 months ago. I'm on Firefox 66.
It might be possible to get it working on an up-to-date computer by loading Firefox53, how to installing older versions here. I wouldn't bother, could be a lot of computer hacking with no result. Though CADCALC should work OK if you can find a computer that hasn't been updated for a few years, this CADCALC really needs to be re-written.
Dave