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Re: chance to use your programming skills

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From: Tom Davies
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 00:00
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Stephen Choularton wrote in message <3961B0D2.3D95D526@ezbooks.com.au>...
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>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.

Tom
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Subject: Re: chance to use your programming skills
Date: 2000/07/05
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