I'm trying to set up jButtons with different images like such --------------------------------- h t m l ----------------------------------- .... <PARAM name="Prev-passive" value="Pbutton2.gif"> <PARAM name="Prev-active" value="Pbutton3.gif"> <PARAM name="Prev-disable" value="Pbutton4.gif"> ..... --------------------------------- h t m l ------------------------------------ the images are read in like thus --------------------------------- j a v a ------------------------------------- ... protected Image pImage1 ... pImage1 = this.getImage(this.getDocumentBase(), this.getParameter( "Prev-passive" )); ... jPrevButton.setIcon (new ImageIcon (pImage1)); ... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- when the applet tries to read the files it gets a FileIO exception from the security manager like such -------------------------------- java console --------------------------------- netscape.security.AppletSecurityException: security.checkread: Read of 'NbuttonImage3.gif' not permitted at netscape.security.AppletSecurity.checkRead(AppletSecurity.java:608) at netscape.security.AppletSecurity.checkRead(AppletSecurity.java:493) at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkRead(SecurityManager.java:545) at sun.awt.SunToolkit.getImageFromHash(SunToolkit.java:110) at sun.awt.SunToolkit.getImage(SunToolkit.java:124) at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(ImageIcon.java:64) at javax.swing.ImageIcon.<init>(ImageIcon.java:83) at VTour.init(VTour.java:99) * at netscape.applet.DerivedAppletFrame$InitAppletEvent.dispatch(DerivedAppletFrame.java:553) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread$EventPump.dispatchEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:81) at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:135) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Can someone please give me some ideas the ful code is available at www.digital-babylon.com/strangedos/java thanks, Joel McCrty ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]