Date   : Thu, 03 Aug 2000 23:22:01 +0200
From   : Isabel Cisternas & Robert Schmidt <rschmidt@...>
Subject: Re: Sombody Please help!

jason bennison wrote:
> I am clearly blunt ignoranus in the concepts of JavaScript programming,  but
> im a gnats whisker from completing a true client side  On-line BBC Micro
> Emulator.

Are you rewriting BeebEm in Java?

> Can anybody tell me in laymans terms how I can load a disc image from the
> server side to a Java applet running client side???

The Java applet has to ask for it, much like any Java applet can
download images and sounds from the originating server.  

Due to the sandbox nature of the browsers' JVMs, a Java applet can only
receive input from the keyboard, mouse and files from the originating
server (possibly cached at the client).
 
> I want to load the one-off Beeb plugin and keep it in browser, and when the
> user changes to another disc, I want to load the disc from the server
> (possibly using an ASP???)

Then reprogram the plugin so that instead of a "File Open" dialog box
(as in normal BeebEm), you give the user a list of the available images
on your server.  Then load the selected image from the server.


robert