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Help: The HTML/Applet Interface
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![]() No help for this task. Task 2Under the the "Window" menu of the workbench, choose item "Quick Start", which brings up a dialog box. Indicate that you would like to create an applet
![]() and click "OK". Type in "AppletParam" for the name of the applet and "The HTML Applet Interface" for the Project. Indicate that you would like to write the source code for the applet by clicking the appropriate radio button:
![]() and click "Finish" (do not click "Next" in this case). A dialog box will appear telling you that the default package for SimpleGUI does not exist. Answer that it should continue (that is, it should create the default package). A code browser will appear for you to edit your new applet. No help for this task. Task 3Click on the "Hierarchy" tab of the code browser and select the paint method in the "Methods" pane. The prewritten method will be displayed in the bottom code pane. Modify it so that the paint method looks like:/** * paint() draws the text on the drawing area. */ public void paint(Graphics g) { g.setFont(font); g.setColor( Color.black ); g.drawString("My title:"+getParameter("title"), 5, 50); }The browser will look something like this:
![]() Using the popup menu in the bottom code pane (right mouse click), select "Save"--VisualAge will save and compile your new changes. No help for this task. Task 4Test your applet by clicking on the "running person" icon under the browser menu bar. A dialog box will appear that allows you to set the parameters used to invoke your applet. Modify the width,height to be 250,100 and create a user-defined parameter in the "Parameters" pane called "title" with a value of whatever your title is. For example:<param name="title" value="President">The dialog box should look like:
![]() Click on the "Save" button to have VisualAge remember your settings for the next time you try to run this applet. After clicking the "Save" button you should get a notice that parameters have been saved in the repository.
VisualAge will be testing your applet as if an HTML web page had
the following embedded applet tag (assuming the .class
files were in the same directory).
Finally, click on the "Run" button to test your applet. It should look like:
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