On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Brian Krahmer wrote: > A seemingly new Internet Explorer bug has been found. Details can be > found at http://www.focus-asia.com/home/tjc/ghosting/ It basically only > causes minor annoyances. On my machine (nt4, sp3, ie4 4.01, active > desktop) it caused explore.exe (Windows Explorer) processor usage to go > up to about 95%. > brian This is also effective on Windows 98 (4.10.1681) _without_ active desktop. I thought some of the readers might appreciate source so I'm including it below. Note I also decided that black was more ominous than white. :) Max // zealand.java - implements "ghosting" for IE with Active Desktop import java.applet.Applet; import java.awt.*; public class zealand extends Applet { public void init() { apd = size(); draw(); } public void paint(Graphics g) { update(g); } public void update(Graphics g) { flick(g); } private void draw() { Graphics g = getGraphics(); update(g); update(g); } private void flick(Graphics g) { g.setColor(Color.black); g.fillRect(0, 0, apd.width, apd.height); } public zealand() { } Dimension apd; int x; }
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