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:
- The "End" key starts an addition of an item.
- The "Insert" key starts the insertion of an item.
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.