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"Tom Davies" <tom@smartchat.net.au> wrote in message
news:8jurvv$2fm$1@perki.connect.com.au...
>
> Stephen Choularton wrote in message <3961B0D2.3D95D526@ezbooks.com.au>...
> [snip]
> >I want to create a product called ScreenMagic.  It will be an applet
> >that when delivered will
> >change all the screen setting on windows 98 (and hopefully 95 and
> >2000).  Noises, wallpaper,
> >screensaver, mouse pointer, etc.
>
> How do you propose to get an *applet* to do that? An applet runs in a
> sandbox and can't create files or open sockets locally, and certainly
can't
> use JNI.

You sign the applet and ask for permission. Have you ever had a window pop
up with "this applet wants to write to your had disk. Do you want to let
it?". Like that.

However, seing as this is windoze specific, you'll wind up using MS Java
extensions to talk to COM objects, and if you are going to do that you may
as well just use an activex control hooked into some Javascript. It's
native.

But having this on a website, so there is a central place with all the
themes which you can flick though online, is a neat idea.

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