[java] Active Desktop & Applets

Hm. I just tried it with an applet I downloaded off the web and that one loads fine. So what is it about my applet that is causing it not to work??

Have you tried loading it in the browser from a local file? Maybe it's a security restriction on reading files from the local filesystem.

I'm not sure, but I wonder whether maybe applets loaded from the local filesystem can't load files at all.

Another possibility is that the applet assumes it's being loaded over http and composes URLs accordingly to load resources from - obviously that will fail locally.

Look at the Java console.

Mark

Sorry I haven't responded back real quick. I have yet to determine what the problem is. I have another applet running from the same page I am displaying on my Active desktop that runs fine. I did check to see if I can load the file in the browser (both IE 6.* and Firefox), and in IE it wouldn't let the applet run. If I access it via the web (I'm running an apache webserver at the moment with the file stored locally), it ran fine. I changed the security settings in IE to the lowest possible and played with other script settings etc. Still no luck. I have IE setup at the moment so that it will let the applet run whether it is loaded directly from the file system or through the web.

Also, in the page I am loading on the active desktop, the other applet, which is a
random one I downloaded from the web, runs fine and did run fine beforehand. I'm at a loss. I can't think of anything else at the moment.