Notes and tips

Announcing that your images are protected

The author's option is that it's better not to announce on a web site that images are protected and how. To tell someone that an image can't be copied is a red rag to a bull. Just let them figure it out for themselves.

Key shortcuts

Where a component has mutiple items such as a List box then the following keys are used as shortcuts:

Text addition problems

Occasionally AppletPainter will get confused about where text being typed is to go. A button might be highlighted but typed text goes to a simple line. If this happens then click again on the component that should be the one selected. This problem is really a bug which is being worked on.

Page loading times

When a webpage is accessed and the ImageSafe applets on it load, they won't display anything until the entire JAR file loads from the server. There is no progressive display. It's all or nothing. This can be a problem with many images on a page as Netscape insists that ALL the images load before any can be displayed. This is a browser decision which ImageSafe can't influence. The only solution is to have less images on a page, perhaps with thumbnailing being used to index the images.