File IO with originating host
Hi,
I am working on an applet that allows a user to generate an animated gif for a chinese character (showing the order in which to draw the strokes). The applet works fine if I run it locally on my machine, but it requires access to the file system twice: one file-read for creating a Font object from a .TTF file, and one file-write to output the animated gif.
I would like to host this applet on a server. Now, however, the file accesses in the applet will refer to the client's filesystem which would be wrong (also the access won't be granted anyway due to security restrictions). Is there an easy way to access files, read and write, on the originating host instead of on the client (from what I understand this wouldn't violate the applet security restrictions)?
Thanks,
Thomas
