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By: Ralf
Date: 8/13/98 12:14:12 PM
# Replies: 15
Anyone here play with the "Active Desktop"?
Do you know how to hijack a Java applet from a web-site and plug it into your desktop? I know it can be done, but how?
Response #1
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/13/98 2:06:05 PM
The webcrawler Search Voyeur would be waycool on the desktop.
Response #2
By: Ralf
Date: 8/14/98 6:35:40 AM
Well, that's what I was thinking too. :-)
Response #3
By: Shadow Sprite
Date: 8/16/98 10:55:20 AM
Would there really be a point to putting a "counter" on your desktop?
Response #4
By: Cleotis
Date: 8/16/98 11:43:29 PM
Java on the desktop! Cool!
I'd run one of those /<-RaD applets that makes the background of the page change colors real quick-like!
Response #5
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/17/98 8:43:25 PM
Dewd.
Java applets on the desktop! Yay! I *like* to have a Distributed Desktop Pattern! It's the new killer app!
Response #6
By: Ralf
Date: 8/23/98 10:47:28 AM
Okay, but HOW?
Beyond the Java Gallery that comes with Active Desktop (which, by the way, contains a neato-keen 3D Java clock that warps and spins consumes 70% of the CPU. Ahem.) how do you shanghai other Java apps and localize them?
Response #7
By: Homer The Brave
Date: 8/23/98 9:01:43 PM
Uhm, you were taking me seriously?
If I were designing a way to steal java applets and put them on the desktop, I'd make it so that you could drag them off of a web browser and onto the desktop.
Response #8
By: rorschach
Date: 8/24/98 11:57:34 AM
not having or even SEEN 98 i can only speculate, but have you tried right clicking on the applet and doing the "save link as..." thing?
Response #9
By: Mycroft
Date: 8/24/98 4:28:29 PM
Uhm, I'll ask my friend Jayhova 4x4. He was running a beautiful x-day pack of cigarettes/counter as his desktop before x-day...
Response #10
By: Ralf
Date: 8/24/98 4:48:30 PM
Right-clicking/saving would be kewl. Unfortunately, it don't work.
I want my desktop to WRITHE with autonomous activity. What a dizzyingly complex world we live in...
Response #11
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 8/25/98 10:26:21 PM
Ralf Sez:
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I want my desktop to WRITHE with autonomous activity.
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You can approximate this effect by placing a couple of small electric desk fans on top of your monitor.
And the best part? 0.00% CPU usage!! :)
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #12
By: Ralf
Date: 8/26/98 5:30:36 PM
Hehehehehhe....
OR, just lean a book up against the Degauss button.
Response #13
By: The Sorcerer
Date: 8/26/98 7:05:45 PM
The fan situation actually got me a good monitor for my PC at work when I was at UPS. Somebody said their monitor was going bad, so being the great guy I am I offered to give them mine. I just made a point to relocate their fan when I was doing the swap and suggest that they keep it away from the monitor to avoid a repeat of the same situation.
So, does that make me EEEEVIL(tm)? :)
Sorc'(Rev)
Response #14
By: Gowan McGland
Date: 8/27/98 11:33:18 AM
No, that makes you an experience technical support representative.
Response #15
By: Da Sissop
Date: 8/27/98 12:33:43 PM
Hiya Sorc! Welcome to the Dark Side!
Hey, nice hat! Somebody submit an Installation Request form and see if we can't get pointy hats for all of us.