A question

[Sarah Haideri]

I have an old applet which loads image. What can be done to increase the refresh rate? I know it contains some deprecated methods of Thread class. What can be done to stop using those methods?
Here is source code. Can someone update it to increase the refresh rate and get rid of the deprecated methods?
Thanks.

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.net.*;
// Variables:
// Trace - trace control
// URL - Url for image
// Interval update interval
public class JavaCam extends Applet implements Runnable
{
booleanboolean_Debug;// Debugging enabled/disabled
Imageimage_WebcamImage;// Image from Webcam32
Threadthread_This;// Thread for refreshing image
intint_Interval;// Interval between image refreshes ...
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("Webcam32's JavaCam: V1.1");
}
public void trace(String message)
{
if (boolean_Debug)
{
System.out.println(message);
}
}
public void destroy()
{
trace("Applet.destroy() called");
thread_This.stop();
}
public void start()
{
trace("Start called");
thread_This.resume();
}
public void stop()
{
trace("Stop called");
thread_This.suspend();
}
public void run()
{
trace("run(): Thread started!");
while (true)
{
try
{
// Put the refresh thread to sleep for the supplied interval
Thread.sleep(int_Interval*1000);

trace("Flushing image");
// Flush the image in the image buffer so we get a new one
image_WebcamImage.flush();
// Track the image and wait till its loaded
MediaTracker mediaTracker_track = new MediaTracker(this);
mediaTracker_track.addImage(image_WebcamImage, 1);
mediaTracker_track.waitForID(1);
// Repaint the image
repaint();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
trace("Caught:"+e.toString());
}
}
}
public void init()
{
Stringstring_Url;
URLurl_Webcam;
intint_Port;
boolean_Debug = false;
if (getParameter("Trace") != null)
{
boolean_Debug = true;
}

trace("Init called");
string_Url = getParameter("URL");
if (string_Url == null)
{
showStatus("No URL for Webcam32 image supplied");
return;
}
try
{
int_Interval = Integer.parseInt(getParameter("Interval"));
}
catch (Exception e)
{
// Format exception ... default interval 30
int_Interval = 30;
}
trace("Refresh interval="+int_Interval);

try
{
url_Webcam = new URL(string_Url);
trace("Target URL="+url_Webcam.toString());
image_WebcamImage = getImage(url_Webcam);
MediaTracker mediaTracker_track = new MediaTracker(this);
mediaTracker_track.addImage(image_WebcamImage, 1);
mediaTracker_track.waitForID(1);
}
catch(Exception e)
{
trace("Image get exception:"+e.toString());
showStatus("Problem getting initial image: "+e.toString());
return;
}
/*
int int_Width = image_WebcamImage.getWidth(this);
int int_Height = image_WebcamImage.getHeight(this);
trace("width="+int_Width+" height="+int_Height);
resize(int_Width, int_Height);
*/
// Create and start the new thread initially suspended
thread_This = new Thread(this);
thread_This.suspend();
thread_This.start();
}
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
trace("paint()");
if (image_WebcamImage != null)
{
g.drawImage(image_WebcamImage, 0,0, this);
}
}

}