Applets init()

[ml behra]

Hi everybody!!!
In a applet we have init() method and it is invoked when the applet is first loaded.Can we invoke the constructor of the class before init().if so how?
thanks in advance.

[Grant Crofton]

I don't think applet's use constructors io the same way as normal - init() IS the applet's constructor.

[Stephanie Grasson]

I believe you need to make the constuctor for your applet public.
A little example is included below:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class ConstructApplet extends Applet
{
String theString;
public ConstructApplet()
{
theString = new String("Inside constructor");
}
public void init()
{
theString += ", inside init()";
}
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
g.drawString(theString, 10, 10);
}
}

Hope this helps.
Stephanie

[ml behra]

Thanks stephanie for ur reply.