I began a very helpful discussion with Alessandro Pignotti (@alexp-sssup) on
https://gitter.im/leaningtech/cheerpj?at=5f189bf76279c91f420801af
about how to get Java applet byte-code to work with CherrpJ in present-day browsers.
Hopefully the two examples referenced there in this post can serve as a guide to others who might also be struggling with getting the basics of java applet conversion with CheerpJ going.
As I mentioned there I would, I am now putting this follow-up question in stackoverflow:
I was hoping to get this page to work in which I am trying to run the same byte-code with both the <cheerjp-applet> and <applet> tags on the same page. However the page never loads properly. The best I can achieve is (with page loading seeming to hang) to force some hung script to stop, which then often ends up bringing the CheerjP button up, but I have yet to the get button in the original applet to show on the same page (in a java-enabled browser-setup where the legacy applet does work properly from this page). Sometimes the browser completely hangs before even the Cheerpj script gets to work.
So my question is: Is what I am attempting even possible, and if so what could be wrong with this first attempt of mine?
P.S.: The stackoverflow tag [cheerpj] does not exist, so the suggestion on Gitter to use it fails for me: I don't have a reputation of 1500 :( !!! Since a pretty thorough web search has revealed very little in-depth technical discussion about CheerpJ besides what's in the Gitter CheerpJ room I reference at the start of this post, I am not sure how far the attempt to move discussion in to stackoverflow is going to go.