Loading a file with an applet

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Help!

I'm creating a 2d game applet, and in the game i need to load a file to read in the map to the game. Now, i have some serious problems getting the applet to load the file in browsers like IE and netscape. In appletviever everything's ok, but in the browsers i get security exceptions. Anyone got a sollution to my problem?

(the file i try to load is located in the same directory as the applets class and html file)

/Jon-Mikko

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Due to the security restrcitions on applets (unsigned), you cannot use "File" to open a file.

However, a solution to this would be read in the contents of the file as a URL since the file you want to read is in the same directory as the applet.

URL url=new URL(getDocumentBase(),"yourMapFile.txt");
DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStrea(url.openStream());
String line = "";
while ( (line=dis.readLine()) != nul) {
    // PROCESS LINE HERE
}