Appletviewer

[BiCure]

I am having some troubles getting the applet viewer to open my first ever attempt. The viewer opens but my file does not open with it.

Here is the code I am using from the textbook:

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

/*
<applet code ="SimpleApplet" width=200 height=60>
</applet>
*/

public class SimpleApplet extends Applet {
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.drawString("A Simple Applet", 20, 20);
}
}

I have the directory of the file opened up in command prompt and that is just a notebook file. I typed in appletviewer RunApp.html(name of the file in the directory) and the appletviewer opens but has an error opening my file. The error says "Can't read AppletViewer properties file" then lists a directory. It also has a ClassNotFoundException: SimpleApplet which quite obviously means SimpleApplet was not found when trying to load. Any help would be fantastic, thanks ahead of time.

[DarrylBurke]

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Have you compiled the class? Your statement

I typed in appletviewer RunApp.html(name of the file in the directory)

seems to imply that you have written Java code in a file with a .html extension. Better go through the Tutorial Lesson: Java Applets (The Java™ Tutorials > Deployment)

db

[Tolls]

appletviewer takes an html document generally and displays any APPLET/OBJECT/whatever-the-other-one-is tags.

BiCure, as Darryl asks, though, have you compiled the SimpleApplet class.
If so, is the resulting class file in the same directory as the html file you are opening?

Finally, if you get an error running something it is best to provide the full error message (plus any stack traces) here.

[BiCure]

Thanks for the help, that was definitely my problem. Been a few months since I've done any Java but picking up where I left off from then put my next subject as applets. I did not know I had to compile the SimpleApplet class to run the appletviewer as I've never used it before. Thanks again, I'm sure I'll have more questions in the future as I'm trying to pound out a chapter every week day in this book.

[BiCure]

P.S. you must have helped me in the past Tolls because I must spread rep before giving you more.