Preferences are used to make HotJava work in your environment and
to customize certain user interface aspects of HotJava.
Choose Preferences from the Edit menu, then one of the following from the submenu:
Display preferences affect the default home page, the
position of the navigation buttons, link style, and font.
Setting the First Page Displayed
- Choose either the welcome screen (HotJava page with steaming and
splashing cup of coffee) or type in a home page.
The default HotJava home page is
doc:/lib/hotjava/whats-hot.html.
Modifying Display Parameters
- Choose At Top, At Bottom, or None for navigation buttons.
The default is At Top.
- Choose Underline to add underlines to the colored links if you wish.
The default is links appear in color only.
- Choose Dialog (a sans serif font), Helvetica, Times Roman,
Courier, or DialogInput (a serif font) for the typeface.
The default is Helvetica.
- Choose Extra Small, Small, Medium, Large, or Extra Large for typeface size.
The default is Medium.
If you're running HotJava in a networked environment, and you're having
trouble accessing Web pages, you might need to set Proxy servers to enable
access outside of your company network. Proxies are the servers or
gateways for Internet access through your network firewall.
To specify proxy servers:
- Choose Proxies from the Preferences submenu of the Edit menu
Ask your system
administrator for the proxy information specific to your site.
See the HotJava User's Guide
for more information on proxies.
HotJava supports the following protocols for which you may
need to set proxies and ports.
Your system administrator should tell you what you need.
The following two settings are also on the Proxies page.
A Caching proxy may improve performance and reduce network traffic.
Caching Web pages means temporarily storing them to disk so they
don't have to be downloaded across the network each time they are accessed.
Note: When the Caching Proxy is set, ALL requests are
attempted through the caching server only.
SOCKS is another kind of server that allows access across the network
firewall. Ask your system administrator if you should be using SOCKS
or the proxy servers and the name and port of the appropriate server(s).
You can use HotJava to send email. To set up your return email address
in advance, choose Mail from the Preferences submenu of the Edit menu.
Setting Your Email Return Address
Check that your email address is correct or click in the
Email Address field to change it.
Setting Your Mail (SMTP) Server
If the system you're running HotJava on is the same as
your mail server, you may not need to enter anything in this field.
See The
HotJava User's Guide for more information.
In general, applets loaded over the net are prevented from reading and
writing files on the client file system, and from making network
connections except to the originating host. HotJava provides two settings
you can use to loosen the restrictions a little. For more information,
see the Applet Security
FAQ.
Choose Applet Security from the Preferences submenu of the Edit menu.
To Set Applet Access to the Network
Choose from None, Applet Host (the default), or Unrestricted to specify
whether Applets can open network connections.
To Set Applet Access to Classes
Choose from Restricted (the default) or Unrestricted to specify whether
applets can access Sun classes (internal Java code).
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