Building an Applet

This page contains pointers to all the applets discussed in the "Building an Applet" chapter of Hooked on Java. In addion it has pointers to the simple applet examples supplied with the JDK1.0 release.
You can go through the examples to figure out how applet programming works.

If you want to do different things than are in the examples, you can use the api docs as a reference.

Graphics Applet 1
Drawing a line.
Graphics Applet 2
Drawing a rectangle.
Graphics Applet 3
Drawing a centered string.
Graphics Applet 4
Drawing an image.
Graphics Applet 5
Combining the four applets into a configurable applet.
UIApplet 1
An applet that uses the gui toolkit to put up a textfield and a button.
UIApplet 2
An applet that uses the gui toolkit to put up some buttons.
UIApplet 3
An applet that uses the gui toolkit to put up some buttons inside some other buttons.
UIApplet 4
An applet that uses the gui toolkit to put up a phone dialer.
ArcTest
An applet that combines gui controls and graphing.
CardTest
An applet that demonstrates different gui layout managers.
DitherTest
An applet that combines gui controls, color, and painting.
DrawTest
An applet that combines gui controls and interactive drawing.
Fractal
An applet that draws a Fractal.
Graphics Test
An applet that draws shapes.
Jumping Box Game
Try to click on the moving box.
Simple Graph
An applet that draws a simple graph - no axis no labels.