Re: frame question

[Gary Feinstein <gfeinste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanx Doc, and to everyone else that responded.  I will try changing my
current applet into an application.  Wish me luck.  If you don't hear
from me in the next few days, assume I got sucked into the computer like
that guy in Tron.
Gary

Ed.Doxtator@ssa.co.uk wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
> --------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 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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