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I finished the applet and everything works in using the applet viewer.
When I open the htm file that opens the java class, everything works
until I get to my high scores screen. when I click that button, It
reads from a file and sorts out the high scores and then compares to
the current users high score. nothing is written to a file. just read.

I am wondering why it wouldn't work in the htm file but would work
using appletviewer. If I make it a signed applet will it work? I
thought it didn't have to be signed if you are just reading from a file
not writing.

Anyone have any suggestions?

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>I finished the applet and everything works in using the applet viewer.
> When I open the htm file that opens the java class, everything works
> until I get to my high scores screen. when I click that button, It
> reads from a file and sorts out the high scores and then compares to
> the current users high score. nothing is written to a file. just read.
>
> I am wondering why it wouldn't work in the htm file but would work
> using appletviewer. If I make it a signed applet will it work? I
> thought it didn't have to be signed if you are just reading from a file
> not writing.

Yes, you need to sign it to do *any* file access.

If not, you would be able to read my
"passwors_and_pincodes.txt" file in my root folder...

Read or write doesn't matter.

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Dag.

Thanks Dag Sunde for the help.

ok i've signed other applets but this one isnt working.

either something isnt working or im forgetting something...

i gotta jar my class..

jar cvf quiz.jar quiz.class

then run my key tool...

keytool -genkey -alias quiz -validity 365

then enter all my info

then last i need to sign the jar file with the jarsigner

jarsigner quiz.jar quiz

is that all i need to do? i did all that and tried recompiling and it
didnt work. i went and deleted my keyfile and retried it and it still
didn't work.

I'm new to this so any help would be great if im missing anything.
Thanks.

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> Thanks Dag Sunde for the help.
>
> ok i've signed other applets but this one isnt working.
>
> either something isnt working or im forgetting something...
>
> i gotta jar my class..
> jar cvf quiz.jar quiz.class
>
> then run my key tool...
> keytool -genkey -alias quiz -validity 365
> then enter all my info

Hmmm... It is a long time since I used a self-signed
certificate, and I've never used keytool.
But as far as I remember you have to create
a "root" certificate, and import that so you become
your own CA.

Then you use that CA-certificate to create and sign your
code-signing certificate.
Only now, you have a certificate you can use to sign your jar.

The command line I use to create and sign a jar file in one shot is
like this:

signtool -k"My CommonName" -d. -Z"jarfilename.jar" -p"mypwd" signdir

I have alway used OpenSSL to create self-signed server certificates,
not code-signing. I use a commercial Verisign certificate for that.

Anyway, here's the process for OpenSSL:
http://www.dylanbeattie.net/docs/ope...ssl_howto.html

Maybe you can get something from that...

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Dag.

well i got it to work. and now when i click the high scores button. it
crashes the whole window.

i have it just quiz.htm and it crashes that window

and i uploaded it to my ftp and went to that website and ran the signed
applet and when i hit the "high scores".. it crashes the whole window
and closes it.

i guess im stuck and don't know what would cause that. any
suggestions/ideas would be appreciated. thanks for your time!

well i found out why it crashes and i got it to stop but now i still
have a problem.

in my catch for reading from the file... some how it would throw and
error and my code has it do a system.exit if it does.

so now i removed the system.exit... and when it displays the high
scores... it just says null 0. cause obviously its not reading them..

i just dont understand how it worked through appletviewer but not
worked through regular html file. hmm.. thanks for the help!

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> well i found out why it crashes and i got it to stop but now i still
> have a problem.
>
> in my catch for reading from the file... some how it would throw and
> error and my code has it do a system.exit if it does.
>
> so now i removed the system.exit... and when it displays the high
> scores... it just says null 0. cause obviously its not reading them..
>
> i just dont understand how it worked through appletviewer but not
> worked through regular html file. hmm.. thanks for the help!

In Appletviewer, it is running as a local program, accessing files
locally.

How do you access the file you try to open? Post the file-reading
code.
How is your filename and path formatted?

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Dag.

wrote:

> in my catch for reading from the file... some how it would throw and
> error and my code has it do a system.exit if it does.

You cannot do a System.exit(n) form within an applet.
>
> so now i removed the system.exit... and when it displays the high
> scores... it just says null 0. cause obviously its not reading them..

Where is your applet? Give us the URL so we can see it
crash. Link to the code.

> i just dont understand how it worked through appletviewer but not
> worked through regular html file. hmm.. thanks for the help!

Could be due to a number of things.

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