[Song: "Flash of the Blade"] As a young boy chasing dragons with your wooden sword so mighty, You're St. George or you're David and you always killed the beast. Times change very quickly, and you had to grow up early, A house in smoking ruins and the bodies at your feet.
*CHORUS
You'll die as you lived In a flash of the blade, In a corner forgotten by no one. You lived for the touch For the feel of the steel One man, and his honour.
The smell of resined leather The steely iron mask As you cut and thrust and parried at the fencing master's call. He taught you all he ever knew To fear no mortal man and now you'll wreak your vengeance in the Screams of evil men.
Asterix "*" stands for any, it this case they just try to say put there a name you want like myApplet.java. Also "plain text file" is little distracting but take it that this way, they expect you to type your code in notepad and when saving give it java extention. Not everybody start with IDE's, I did my first few months of coding in notepad and compiled all in command prompt :cheesy:
To the rest of your question about applet and Panorama.init I can't comment, I did only requered part of applet coding at university and never returned back to it again. It didn't impress me :rolleyes:
Javac is what is called when you hit the button for compiling in your IDE and like in IDE if you have errors it will output them for you if no errors you simple get empty command line to execute another command Applet is java file, just instead of using main method you call init to start applet and stop to stop it
Peter:
Thank-you for your reply.
The source for that class must live in a plain text file with the same name (including case), with a *.java extension.
Code for Tutorial
public class MyApplet extends java.applet.Applet {
public MyApplet( ) { //create applet
System.out.println("In ctor");
}
public void init( ) { // initialize
System.out.println("In init");
}
public void start( ) { // display page
System.out.println("In start");
}
public void stop( ) { // leave page
System.out.println("In stop");
}
public void destroy( ) {// clean up
System.out.println("In destroy");
}
}
I am bit confused still about the use of "*":
Create a Panorama Applet class and HTML file. Override the init method and print outa trace message. Test and verify the message is printed.Here are the steps:
1. Create Panorama.java using a text editor.
*In the file, add a public Panorama class and have it inherit from
java.applet.Applet.
*In the class, add an init method that takes no arguments and returns void.
*In init, issue System.out.println of "In Panorama.init". This provides amessage when the method is invoked that traces the flow through the applet.Continue …
I have recently been studying Java; I have followed a few tutorials and building some simple apps.
I am wanting to try applets. I read about them tonight and followed an included tutorial in order to get an introductory feel for doing so.
My questions do not pertain to code or syntax but compiling the text file(s).
Javac: the tutorial refers to Javac. I assumed I could code and run the applet in JBuilder (2005 Foundation). Is this possible? When I open Javac it runs lines and closes. Honestly, I am not very practiced with command-line.
Naming and titling Java text files for applets: I read references to "*.java"; I assume that this would be, for example, something such as "Test*.java" -- is this correct? I have never dealt with this before.
I want to become more clear on these issues before I proceed. Any help or push in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
"I've never seen you in my bloody life! You are obviously a nefarious imposter of some sort, a cad-- a rogue! I will not submit to your idea of care, you twisted methods of medical madness. Go away now. You are discharged from my service."
When posting earlier: I finished writing post ,submitted the post, and it appeared in the thread more than once (maybe 3-4 times). I noticed this in other posts-- it was either an odd coincidence or something else. I reported my posts and some of the others that I saw with "flag bad post".
It seems as if the site system is setting multiple posts upon submission. This has happened to me this afternoon, displaying 3-4 of the same post\reply instead of just one unique submission.
I do not own an iPod, instead, a black-silver Lyra. I do not know if I will ever give in and by an Apple product such as this. A bit over-hyped and marketed as too cool :rolleyes: (we have a term for that up here where I live, but I shall refrain from saying it here ;)) for my tastes. I would probably give the new Microsoft player a chance first-- I like its style better overall.
