Creating an Applet User Interface

Creating a GUI

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Almost all applets have a graphical user interface (GUI). The Creating a User Interface trail gives many examples of applet GUIs. This page discusses the few issues that are particular to applet GUIs:

• Each Applet is a Panel.
• Applets are visible, so you must call validate() after adding components to them. Otherwise, your components might not appear onscreen.
• File saving -- most applet viewers won't let you do it.
• Time to load custom classes? Ways of cutting it down? (performance section?)
• Load images using the applet getImage() method.
• Using getDocumentBase() and getCodeBase().

What else?

Creating an Applet User Interface