Run Applet From GUI?

[dsym@comcast.net]

I want to make a GUI in which the user selects their name and difficulty level, and then runs a game which is an applet. Is there a way to do this?

[DarrylBurke]

Very little is impossible, but why on earth would you want to do this?

db

[OrangeDog]

Stick the contents of the applet in a Frame instead.

[Eranga]

Can't we execute a html from the UI? db and OD, what you guys think of that?

[DarrylBurke]

I think it's a clunky approach to a non-problem.

In the worst case, which is if the applet is contained in a third-party jar, one could construct an instance of the Applet, invoke its init() method and add it to a Frame (or for a JApplet, set its contentPane to be the contentPane of a JFrame).

If the source is available, it should be trivial to refactor the game to be housed in a JPanel which can then be set as the contentPane for either a JApplet or a JFrame, which gives the maximum flexibility and is the preferred development route for any game or other GUI which may be required to be run either as a local application or in a browser window, as an applet.

db

[Eranga]

Okay db, I agreed with your comment. As you said it could be a real mess working on with third part jar files and stuff.

[OrangeDog]

Can't we execute a html from the UI? db and OD, what you guys think of that?

For the same reason we don't execute html in order to display an image, or some text. It's a horribly over-complicated hack.

[Eranga]

Hmmm, some cases I've done that. Actually for simple applications, I didn't use it for a larger/complex applications yet.