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    Java applet example - get applet parameters from an

    HTML file
    Submitted by alvin on July 28, 2007 - 12:36am
    tags:  

     applet

     applet parameter

     applet tag

     getparameter

     html

     java

     java

     java applet

    Introduction
    Many times when you're developing a Java applet, you want to pass parameters from an
    HTML page to the applet you're invoking. For instance, you may want to tell the applet what
    background color it should use, or what font to use, to keep your Java applet consistent with
    the rest of your HTML-based web site.
    A great benefit of passing applet parameters from HTML pages to the applets they call is
    portability. If you pass parameters into your Java applets, they can be portable from one
    web page to another, and from one web site to another. On the other hand, if you don't pass
    parameters into a Java applet, how will the applet know what font to use? Simple - you
    hardwire it into the Java source code! As I often say to my new puppy at home, "this is bad".

    In this brief applet tutorial, we'll show you how to pass applet parameters from an HTML
    page to a Java applet. Hopefully you'll be able to use this same technique to make your
    own applets more flexible and portable.

    The sample HTML file


    The listing below shows the source code for the sample HTML file we created for this
    article, including the applet tag shown. We name this file AppletParameterTest.html.

    <HTML>
    <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Java applet example - Passing applet parameters to Java
    applets</TITLE>
    </HEAD>
    <BODY>
    <APPLET CODE="AppletParameterTest.class" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="50">
    <PARAM NAME="font" VALUE="Dialog">
    <PARAM NAME="size" VALUE="24">
    <PARAM NAME="string" VALUE="Hello, world ... it's me. :)">
    </APPLET>
    </BODY>
    </HTML>

    <!-- AppletParameterTest.html - an HTML file that


    calls a Java applet with the applet tag,
    and passes several parameters to the applet via
    the <PARAM> tag. -->

    As you can see, the HTML file identifies the Java applet that we want to load
    -AppletParameterTest.class using an APPLET tag. Then, the only thing we need to do
    to pass parameters to the applet are to include the name and value of the desired
    parameters in <PARAM> tags. These names and values can be whatever we want -
    whatever makes sense for your applet. As a final note, notice that the <PARAM> tags are
    enclosed within the <APPLET> tags.
    The ParamTest.java file
    So far we've seen to create the HTML code that (1) invokes a Java applet using an applet
    tag, and (2) passes parameters to the applet. Next, let's look at the Java applet code
    needed to read the parameters being passed to it. The next listing shows the Java code for
    the ParamTest.java file.

    import java.applet.*;
    import java.awt.*;

    /**
    * A Java applet parameter test class.
    * Demonstrates how to read applet parameters.
    */
    public class AppletParameterTest extends Applet {

    public void paint(Graphics g) {

    String myFont = getParameter("font");


    String myString = getParameter("string");
    int mySize = Integer.parseInt(getParameter("size"));

    Font f = new Font(myFont, Font.BOLD, mySize);


    g.setFont(f);
    g.setColor(Color.red);
    g.drawString(myString, 20, 20);

    }
    }

    As you can see, this is a fairly simple Java applet. It retrieves the applet parameters passed
    to it with the getParameter() method, then uses those parameters to construct its output.
    In this case the few parameters we've passed in deal with the font and the string to be
    printed. In a more elaborate example we might pass in more applet parameters to
    customize the applet's appearance.

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