Re: "my own applet and my own local data files"

Charlie Lai (charlie@angeles.eng.sun.com)
Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:50:19 -0800 (PDT)

From: Charlie Lai <charlie@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Message-Id: <199908062050.NAA05799@angeles.eng.sun.com>
Subject: Re: "my own applet and my own local data files"
To: mliu@dot.state.nv.us (Liu B. Mike)
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1999 13:50:19 -0800 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <DA44F228B5FAD211AAF700A024CDAD47061CDD@crossroads> from "Liu, B. Mike" at Aug 6, 99 07:24:47 am

> I mean the applet running in a browser. Based on what I read, this
> type of applets cannot read any *.txt or similar files except graphics files
> etc.
>
> If this can be done, where can I find some working sample code?

applets can read files if your environment or security policy
is set up to do so. perhaps the best documentation is in the
java tutorials:

http://webmirror/docs/books/tutorial/security1.2/index.html

check out the "Quick Tour of Controlling Applets" section.

thanks,
charlie