Need help editing game

[chuck]

for my programming class we are suppose to find a game on the internet, look at the coding and try to understand the just of it, then edit it and get the modified game to work. i found this game.

http://miniclip.com/aces/index.htm

then i traced it back to this site

http://www.radicalplay.com/aces/

and then i viewed its page source to get the java classes to decompile so i could take a look at the code. in the applet tags in the html it showed code for radist.jar so i got a hold of that too.

http://www.radicalplay.com/aces/radist.jar

i got that all done and i saved all of the class files and jar file to my computer and then i copied and pasted the html applet code into a new html file and tried to run it. the applet ran with the welcome screen showing and asking me to click to continue, but when i click another screen is suppose to appear asking me to press enter. well it doesn't appear so i press enter anyway and then the text for the menu screen shows and the graphics get very weird. i don't know what's wrong with it.

also in the html applet tags there was 'MAYSCRIPT' included inside of the tag. what does that mean?

[sjalle]

MAYSCRIPT allows the applet to 'reach' the documents and objects in the html page.
It is a simple switch, its presence in the APPLET tag is all that is required, plus
a special Netscape class called JSObject. This one, and its companion exception
classes are built into IE4.0 and later. Its a part of LiveConnect that was
introduced by Netscape 3.0, and it supposedly works best in Netscape..

You will need to add this import to your code:

import netscape.javascript.*;

It's part of java 1.4 (and later I suppose....)

In short it allows the applet to access stuff in the html page, like javaScript does.

The default for this functionality is 'off'.

(O'Reilly books are the best )

[chuck]

shouldn't it still work though? i downloaded the jar file and classes and didn't edit them and i got it directly from the applet's parent site. which means that if it works on the parent site then it should work on my computer if i don't mess with the code, which i didn't.

[sjalle]

All the code for an applet can consist of many jars,all the code doesn't have to
be all in the one and only jar file mentioned the applet, does it ? I don't think you can tear out guts like that...