Loading custom font security issues

[roland]

Hi, I have this code here that works fine offline, but fails online because of security IO issues.

1	font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,new File("font.ttf")).deriveFont(20f);

I think the problem is that it is trying to load the font from the user's file system instead of from the server. How can I fix this?
thanks 

[Dx4]

Hi, I have this code here that works fine offline, but fails online because of security IO issues.

1	font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,new File("font.ttf")).deriveFont(20f);

I think the problem is that it is trying to load the font from the user's file system instead of from the server. How can I fix this?
thanks 

try putting the font in the jar then using getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream( ... ) and passing the stream into createFont instead. the accesscontrolcontext created by createFont with an input stream should have temp folder write permission.

HTH

 - David

[roland]

Thanks for the reply David. That sounds like a good way to do it.
I found another way too:

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URL url = null;       try       {          url = new URL(getCodeBase(), "font.ttf");          InputStream in=url.openStream();          m_font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,in).deriveFont(20f);       }       catch (Exception e) {}

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[Dx4]

Thanks for the reply David. That sounds like a good way to do it.
I found another way too:

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URL url = null;       try       {          url = new URL(getCodeBase(), "font.ttf");          InputStream in=url.openStream();          m_font = Font.createFont(Font.TRUETYPE_FONT,in).deriveFont(20f);       }       catch (Exception e) {}

no worries, glad i could help.