JApplet retains information after leaving page

[Ambergahill]

Hello I have a JApplet on a webpage. Everything works fine the first time I go to it in a session. If I go to a different page, and come back to it, there are issues. Even if I refresh the page, I have issues. They do not go away until I close the whole browser and reopen.

The issue I am having is the last thing that was painted on the screen before leavign the page show up again next time you go to the page. I want to start fresh every time I go to the page again.

Thanks!

[andyman99008]

Hello, The convention is to create threads in init(), start them in start(), and stop them in stop()...The start and stop methods are automatically called as you leave/enter the page.

[Ambergahill]

Interesting. Do you have an example of this that I could look at?

[andyman99008]

public class AppletName extends JApplet implements Runnable {

   Thread myThread= null;

public void start() {

    if ( myThread== null ) {

        myThread= new Thread( this );
        myThread.start();
    }
}

public void stop() {

     if ( myThread!= null && myThread.isAlive() )
         myThread.stop();

    myThread= null;
}
public void run() {

    while ( myThread!= null ) {

        repaint();

        try {

            Thread.sleep(20);

        } catch ( InterruptedException e ) {

            // do nothing

        }
    }
}
}

If you never used threads before I suggest you read up on them.

[Ambergahill]

Thanks again. I will try this when I get home from work today.

My only concern is the while loop in run(). Is this good programming practice to do long running loop like this with the repating and sleeping?