[Drift-O-Manaic]

I am trying to make a program in java that can do a variety of pranks to the user. I have already found code to open and close the cd drive and set it on a timer so that it will open and close the cd drive every 10 seconds.

I would like to be able to do things such as rearrange the desktop items, hide the start button, hide the start bar, move the mouse to random positions around the screen, hide the mouse icon, change the mouse icon and much more.

If you have code or other ideas for my program your help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!!!

This post has been edited by Drift-O-Manaic: 16 September 2005 - 09:22 AM

[Cirus]

yeh i have sort of made a program that opens and closes the cd draw but i can activa te it once then it wont work again

[Drift-O-Manaic]

I have the cd tray opening and closing perficly and it is able to do it as many times as you like. I am just looking for more code that can be used in a prank machine program.

[1lacca]

I recommend then have a look at the JNI (Java Native Interface) and the Windows API - or if you are programming for Linux then some documentation of the target Windowing system. Most of the things you need are not available as standard Java functions, as Java is not aware of Start menu or other things like that.
Actually I think you would be better with using C/C++ - C# would have the same drawbacks as it is also a VM.

[Cirus]

could you tell me how to get the cd draw to keep opening in C++

[Drift-O-Manaic]

I do not know how to open the cd drive in C++ but in if you would like to see the code to open it in java click here.

[Cirus]

yeh i know it in java but cannot do it in C++ it only works once then it just seems to stop working

[Drift-O-Manaic]

Do you know of any other thing's that you can do in java? I im trying to find some code that you can swap the mouse buttons, change the possition of the mouse, or change the mouse icon but i havent been able to find anything. Do you know of any more java prank code?

[Cirus]

no not really that much more i use it for games mainly

[Drift-O-Manaic]

If you would like to see the progress that i have maid so far on my program feel free to run it.

The only thing it does is ask you how long to wait before starting the prank and how often it should do the prank.

Let me know if you have any suggestions or comments.

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This post has been edited by Drift-O-Manaic: 29 September 2005 - 02:46 PM

[supersloth]

i wouldn't count on being able to do many windows-specific things in java without some sort of api, the best part about java is that it works cross platform, i.e. the code i program on my windows laptop in class will work on the schools linux server, but that means a lot of windows specific stuff is missing so that everything works in linux, osx, etc...