Running an applet in appletviewer

[mansoor iqbal]

hi
i am trying to run an applet application. but i get an error saying "I/O Exception while reading c:\java_practice\Text. Cant find specified file..". i am using jdk 1.3.1_01
the class compiles ok
when i try the command " appletviewer Text.class", i get back to the dos prompt
i get the error when i do: "appletviewer Text"

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
public class Text extends Applet
{
public void paint (Graphics page)
{
page.drawString ("Forget it",50,50);
page.drawString("-confuciosu",70,70);
}
}

[hai zhang]

You need to have a html file to view the applet using the appletviewer

[dani3l]

Hi.
In order to run an applet with the appletviewer you'll need to pass an html file containing an HTML applet tag as argument.
So you need to create a simple html file containing an applet tag like this:
<applet code="Text" width="300" height="300"></applet>

A second possibiltiy would be to include a comment to your java file as follows:

//<applet code="Text" width="300" height="300">
//</applet>
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
public class Text extends Applet{

public void paint (Graphics page){
page.drawString ("Forget it",50,50);
page.drawString("-confuciosu",70,70);
}
}

Then you can invoke your applet by calling appletviewer with the name of the source file as argument:
appletviewer Text.java

Hope that helps,
Daniel


[This message has been edited by dani3l (edited November 04, 2001).]

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