Re: [Jmol-users] write POVRAY without a dialog box (Shore, Jay)

[Robert H. <ha...@st...>]

On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Shore, Jay <Jay...@sd...> wrote:

>
> Thank you for the responses.
>
> I am just curious, is always having a dialog pop up: necessary, just good
> coding practice, or just a choice?
> It seems that jmol uses JFileChooser, is there an alternative that would
> not use a dialog box.
> Thank you again.
>
>
The issue is not with the application, only the signed applet. Since the
signed applet is being delivered over the web, I felt it important to set it
up so that it could not write to disk without a prompt. Otherwise you could
just load a page, and a malicious developer might start the applet writing
over files on your hard drive.



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