Bringing Juggling Lab back to the web

[rkaravia]

Hello & thank you for making Juggling Lab! I don't know when I first used it, but certainly already before I made this video in 2007.

I just saw that there thing called CheerpJ that compiles Java bytecode to JavaScript, so it can run in the browser.

So I tried it on Juggling Lab, and it works fairly well!

The source code is here, feel free to use it in any way you would like. Anyway I just followed the CheerpJ Tutorial and added a few lines of HTML.

[jkboyce]

@rkaravia Thanks for letting me know about this! This is really cool technology. I'm hosting it now on a page at jugglinglab.org. I've also put you in the site credits, I hope that's ok with you.

You can't save or load files to the local filesystem of course. The only thing I see that doesn't work is the contextual menu that is supposed to pop up with a right-click in the ladder diagram part of the "Visual editor" view. Not a huge deal but I may do some digging to figure out what's going on.

Thanks again. 👍

[rkaravia]

Awesome, I'm very happy this made it to jugglinglab.org :-)

[jkboyce]

It turns out the issue with popup menus is Mac-specific: Control-click is not recognized as a right mouse click. A workaround is to use a two-button mouse or enable "secondary click" on the Mac's trackpad. Filed an issue with the CheerpJ team to make them aware.