Re: frame question

Gary wrote:
>Ok, I understand I am creating JAVA applets.  Well, what about if I just
>wanted to create a straight JAVA application.  How do I do this?  Am I
>making and sense?

Yep.  You want to make stand-alone programs.  (Well, as stand-alone as you
can get with Java.)

Que publishes a book called _Special Edition Using Java 1.1_ that contains
a whole chapter devoted to this very topic, "Chapter 21.  Applications
Versus Applets".

In a nutshell, the differences between applets and applications are:

Applets have:
-A manditory import java.applet.* statement.
-HTML scripts that define (among other things) the applet's size, and
parameters the applet may receive on startup.
-The methods init() and start().  (Even if you don't supply init() and
start() methods, they're defined in the applet base class.)

Applets don't have:
-A main() method.  Applets are invoked by a browser.

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Applications have:
-A main() method. This method does the work of the init() method and
receives the parms passed into the application.

Applications don't have:
-Manditory references to methods inside java.applet.*.
-HTML scripts.  Applications don't need them.
-The init() and start() methods.  The work of these methods is done via the
main() method.

The chapter also outlines a method for writing a Java program such that it
runs inside of a browser as an applet or as a stand-alone application,
which makes loads of sense.  That way, one program can run on your web
site, and can be used internally (when people don't always have browsers).

HTH

-Doc


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