HOW TO DISABLE THE SAVEAS OPTION OF A BROWSER?

Question

Hi all,
Nice to be back again folks.....
Well I need to develop an Applet (perhaps even a swing) which when loaded by any browser would disable the SaveAs option of the browser's File menu.
I tried using the Frame class of java.awt package, the code is:
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class WinAppl extends Applet
int mc;
String str="NO OF MENUS: ";
Font fnt=new Font("Arial",Font.BOLD,12);
MenuBar mb;
Frame frame=new Frame("SNODX");
Window window;
public void init()
frame.setBackground(Color.red);
frame.setForeground(Color.black);
this.setFont(fnt);
mb=frame.getMenuBar();
if(mb!=null)
mc=mb.getMenuCount();
str+=mc;
else
str+="ZERO";
public void paint(Graphics g)
g.drawString(str,50,50);
but when this applet is loaded ALL the menus of the browser disappear .i.e when this frame applet is loaded by the browser only the title bar of the browser and a red colored window appear, no menus. I dont want all the menus to be hidden, just the SaveAs option of Browser's File Menu to be disabled.
Thanks in advance.
True to my nature I am posting this question in some of the other Java forums as well. And as usual sorry for the multiple postings.
snodx

Answer 1

Applets usually have absolutely no control over the browser they are running in (with the exception of loading other web pages and other very high level stuff). You won't be able to write an applet that disables entries in the menu bar. And even if you could it wouldn't really help you because most browsers write everything they download to disc (to the cache) where it can be recovered by anybode.
Last but not least: there are lots of tools for mirroring web sites that will allow users to download and save anything that is accessible for browsers.
However, you may be able to disable the menu bar and perhaps even change entries in some browsers like ie by activeX controls or javascript. Still this is not a very friendly way for a website to behave...