Removing "click to activate applet" , here is a workaround

this is a simple workaround to avoid "click to activate control", working on IE7
juste create the 3 following files with th right name, compile it & try it!

SimpleApplet.htm

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<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT language=JavaScript src=SimpleApplet.js></SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="000000" onload="createApplet()">
<CENTER>
<DIV ID=target></DIV>
</CENTER>
</BODY>
</HTML>

SimpleApplet.js

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/**
 * SimpleApplet.js
 *
 * @author bruno augier
 * @email bruno.augier@dzzd.net
 * @website http://dzzd.net/
 * @version 1.00 2007/07/18
 */

function createApplet()
{
 var elem=document.getElementById("target");
 html="<APPLET\n";
 html+="code   = 'SimpleApplet.class'\n" ;
 html+="width   = '600'\n";
 html+="height   = '360'\n";
 html+="></APPLET>\n" ;
 elem.innerHTML=html;
 setTimeout("focusApplet()",1000);
}


function focusApplet()
{
   if(document.applets[0]!=null)
   {
      document.applets[0].focus();
      document.applets[0].click();
      
   }
   else
      setTimeout("focusApplet()",1000);
}

SimpleApplet.java

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/**
 * SimpleApplet.java
 *
 * @author bruno augier
 * @email bruno.augier@dzzd.net
 * @website http://dzzd.net/
 * @version 1.00 2007/07/18
 */
 
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.event.*;


public class SimpleApplet extends Applet implements MouseMotionListener,Runnable
{
   private int mousePosX;      //Last know mouse pos x (relative to upper corner)
   private int mousePosY;      //Last know mouse pos y (relative to upper corner)
   private boolean run;
   
   public void init()
   {
      this.run=true;
      this.addMouseMotionListener(this);
      Thread t=new Thread(this);
      t.start();
   }
   
   public void run()
   {
      try
      {
         while(this.run)
         {
            this.update(this.getGraphics());
            Thread.sleep(10);
         }
      }
      catch(InterruptedException ie)
      {
      }
   }
   
   public void destroy()
   {
      this.run=false;
      try
      {
         Thread.sleep(100);
      }
      catch(InterruptedException ie)
      {
      }      
   }
   
   public void update(Graphics g) 
   {
      g.setColor(new Color(0x000000));
      g.fillRect(this.mousePosX, this.mousePosY,2,2);
   }
   
   public void paint(Graphics g)
   {
   }
   
   
   public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent e)
   {
   }
   
   public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent e)
   {
      this.mousePosX=e.getX();   
      this.mousePosY=e.getY();
   } 

}