Applet demo stalls for long time before loading screen appears

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Load applet demo at http://www.keithwoodward.com/straightedge/
2. The default java loading animation is visible and the jar files are 
downloaded, but then a grey rectangle is visible for about 30 seconds before 
the custom 'Loading' screen appears with the animated black-to-white flashing 
border.
3. Console output is as follows:
MainApplet: init
: start 0
: start 1
: start .1
: start .2
: start .3.

This is where the console output stops for 30 seconds. For some reason the 
applet appears to stall when the View is created in the MainApplet.start() 
method. 
For some reason this doesn't occur when the applet is run locally using the 
jdk's appletviewer. Also doesn't happen in the web start version.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by keith...@gmail.com on 3 Dec 2010 at 1:27

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Issue fixed by changing html applet tag. See this forum thread for details:
 http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php/topic,23716.0.html

Original comment by keith...@gmail.com on 7 Feb 2011 at 12:31

• Changed state: Verified