Controling the browser

[Eoin Mac Aoidh]

Hi,
I am trying to control the left hand side or my browser window ("mainFrame") from the applet I have embeded in the right hand frame. I wrote a simple applet before consisting of just one class and it worked fine using the following code, I had no problems;

  URL url = getCodeBase(); // get url of the applet
  String target ="mainFrame";
try {
     getAppletContext().showDocument (new URL(url+"test1.htm"),target);
} catch(MalformedURLException p) {
      showStatus("URL not found");
}     

However I am now trying to do the same thing, except that I am editing the code of a much more complicated applet. This applet is spread out over about 15 classes and is called in my web page as a .jar file.
The place where I need to use the code above is in one of these classes that the main class calls to deal with mouse movements.
It gives compilation errors -
Seems I cant use the getCodeBase() or getAppletContext().showDocument ... methods - is this because they are not in the main class where the applet is defined and set up? -The class Im trying to use them in dosnt necessarily know that the application is being run as an applet. is this the problem? and is there an obvious way around it?
Im a little out of my depth here.
Thanks,

Eoin.

[Ulf Dittmer]

getCodeBase() or getAppletContext()

You're correct that those classes can only be used from the class extending Applet (see here for details). You'll need to get hold of a reference to that class