Although decompilation and editing of pre compiled programs is not strictly allowed there are certain reasons why you might want to do this.

I am sticking this together with a little handy program called fred (hex editor)


I will tutor by illustration here.

1. Why I had to Hexedit.

I downloaded a little password applet from www.javapowered.com that I was going to use on my webpage. It had a spelling mistake and instead of "O.K" it had "Okay" on the button.


2. What I did next

I decided to edit the little applet using FRED A Free hex/raw disk reader.

I copied the applet etc into a directory just off the root (Note: 8chars recomended for directory name as Fred is rather old now and hasn't quite got the hang of long file names or spaces

I ran the program and used it to open the applet.

I pressed alt+e to switch to editing mode.

I then looked through the text to find OKAY and replaced it with O.K

Note : It is important not to overwrite any characters which are not text and I find that keeping the length of the string the same is beneficial.

I then saved the file back to the disk.

Exit fred.


3. Testing

I have tried the applet numerous times and it seems to be intact and working fine with its new caption.

For those of you who are intrested its on my site at http://itdepartment.0catch.com

Note : This is a free host site so popups are likely.