Difference between Applet and JApplet

[Lil_Aziz1]

This program will not set the background color to black unless I replace the "extends JApplet" with "extends Applet" but why? what's the difference between them? (between JApplet and Applet) Also, when I hover my mouse over "Applet7" in the class header, I get this message: "The serializable class Applet7 does not declare a static final serialVersionUID field of type long." I'm using Eclipse. This is the code:

import javax.swing.JApplet;
import java.awt.*;

public class Applet7 extends JApplet {

	private final int APPLET_WIDTH = 400;
	private final int APPLET_HEIGHT = 400;
	
	private int[] xRocket = {261,216,216,194,194,324,324,302,302};
	private int[] yRocket = {96,171,331,351,387,387,351,331,171};
	
	public void init() {
		setBackground(Color.black);
		setSize(APPLET_WIDTH,APPLET_HEIGHT);
	}
	public void paint(Graphics applet7) {

		applet7.setColor(Color.cyan);
		applet7.fillPolygon(xRocket, yRocket, xRocket.length);
	}
}

[Fubarable]

When coding a japplet, do your painting in a jpanel (the content pane) in its paintComponent method.

[Lil_Aziz1]

How? I replaced the paint(Graphics applet7) method with this:

	public void paintComponent(Graphics applet7) {
		applet7.setColor(Color.cyan);
		applet7.fillPolygon(xRocket, yRocket, xRocket.length);

	}

And nothing appears now :(

[Fubarable]

You're still trying to paint directly in the JApplet, only now it's worse, because JApplets don't even have a paintComponent method.

Again, you need to paint in a JPanel
Again, you need to override the JPanel's paintComponent method
And again this JPanel needs to be the contentPane of the JApplet (or else added to the JApplet's contentPane BorderLayout.CENTER).

[Fubarable]

e.g.,

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;

import javax.swing.JApplet;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Fu2Applet extends JApplet {
   private final int APPLET_WIDTH = 400;
   private final int APPLET_HEIGHT = 400;

   public void init() {
      try {
         javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
               createGUI();
            }
         });
      }
      catch (Exception e) {
         System.err.println("createGUI didn't successfully complete");
      }
   }

   private void createGUI() {
      // the Fu2 JPanel can either be the contentPane or added to the contentPane
      getContentPane().add(new Fu2());
      setSize(APPLET_WIDTH,APPLET_HEIGHT);
   }
}

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
class Fu2 extends JPanel {
   private int[] xRocket = {261,216,216,194,194,324,324,302,302};
   private int[] yRocket = {96,171,331,351,387,387,351,331,171};
   
   public Fu2() {
      //setBackground(Color.black);
   }
   

   @Override
   protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
      super.paintComponent(g);
      g.setColor(Color.cyan);
      g.fillPolygon(xRocket, yRocket, xRocket.length);
   }
}

[Lil_Aziz1]

Well, this just shows I need to step back because most of it does not make any sense if you look at it through my eyes. I got questions on the stuff that is not so obscure:

javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait
^ y not New Thread? Y even make a thread?

How is the paintComponent method instantiated? It's never called.

The ideal question: What is the difference between JApplet and Applet?

[Fubarable]

javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait
^ y not New Thread? Y even make a thread?

Swing components should be created on the EDT, and JApplets should not complete init until the Swing components have been fully created. The invoke and wait assures that this will happen. Also, it says to do this in the applet tutorial which you should read.

How is the paintComponent method instantiated? It's never called.

Please read this article as it explains this far better than I can: Painting in AWT and Swing

The ideal question: What is the difference between JApplet and Applet?

I'm still learning Swing, so I don't know all the differences, not even half the differences, but mainly one is a Swing app and the other AWT. One uses heavy weight components, the other light weight.

[Lil_Aziz1]

Ah okay. Honestly, I don't think I should get involved with Swings, GUI, JApplets just yet. At least not until I learn the core of Java Applications (Polymorphism, Generics, Advance Concurrency). Reason I was exploring this is because the textbook on Java supplied by my school has a 1 section on graphics for every chapter and I like to look at those occasionally.