launch Applet from another program

[sudipto shekhar]

I want to start an applet "MyApplet" from one of my application.

How do I do that?

Please Help.

[Ulf Dittmer]

What do you mean by "start"? In a browser? In appletviewer? In a window of your -desktop?- application? Something else?

[sudipto shekhar]

thnx for the reply.

I want to start it in an appletviewer or a window

[Ulf Dittmer]

If you have an HTML file that contains the applet tag, you can start appletviewer using Runtime.exec or the ProcessBuilder class. The HTML file would be a parameter on the command line (just like you'd run appletviewer normally).

If you want it to be part of your application, you can the class that extends applet to a Frame (of JFrame), since Applet extends Panel. Call init(), and then start() and stop() as appropriate. Be aware that you lose some applet features when doing it like this (namely, parameters and the applet context).

[sudipto shekhar]

thank you.that was great and very clear.

[sudipto shekhar]

An example would help,please.

[Ulf Dittmer]

An example of what? I mentioned several ways; which one are you pursuing? What do you have so far?