Loading image from file.

An applet can only access the server from which it was loaded.
If it was loaded from across the wire, you can only access that URL. If it loaded from the local machine, it can access a file on the local machine, but it can then not access a URL pointing to another machine.

I thought it I signed the file with a digital signature, I could access the local files. Anyway, assuming I can't access another machine, how do I load a file from the local machine from a method that does not extend Applet as getImage is from Applet.

i.e. I have a class, extends applet, then I have a class that extends frame and wants to display the image. I really want the user to select using the FileDialog, which is what I had until I moved the code from the class extending Applet.

 You can get permission to do that through digital signature in netscape and in the explorer. In the explorer you can also give an applet permissions to do almost anything . to do that  perform the following:  use view -> internet options -> security tab -> trusted site zone -> add sites -> (write the servers address) -> Add -> OK -> set Custom security level -> Settings... -> scroll to Java permissions ->   Check the "Custom" Checkbox -> Click the "Java Custom Settings..." -> Select the "Edit Permission" tab. -> Under "Run Unsigned Content" Check the "Enable" Checkbox -> Click "OK" -> Click "OK" -> Click Apply -> Click "OK".
 
   Once you have a trusted applet, all you have to do is use a URL the same way you did before but direct it to the local disk (like   new String urlname("file:///images/king.jpg");  ). Use this new URL instead of the old one and load the image the same way.

Excellent, just what I wanted, how do I change this to grade your response qadio?

Do I reopen and you type in something irrelevant and I grade you on that?

Reject the previously given answer, and then I'll write an answer here.

Thank you, learned something here.

It is perhaps worth noting consequences though. If you aren't the only user of the code, then anyone else who wants to use it will have to have the relevant stuff on their drive and, more importantly, bypass their security as indicated above. This, of course, opens them up to malicious applets.