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    Hi, I am writing a java applet to simply, display an image on my web browser. I can do it when I am only using one class, but now I wanted to write the program using two classes.

    ======CLASS: GAME======
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.applet.*;
     
    public class Game extends Applet{
     
    	Graphics g;
    	Image img;
    	MainMenu mainMenu;
     
    	public void init(){
    		mainMenu = new MainMenu();
    	}
     
    	public void paint(Graphics gfx){
    		mainMenu.draw(g);
    		gfx.drawImage(img,0,0,this);
    	}
    }

    ======CLASS: MAINMENU======
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.applet.*;
     
    public class MainMenu extends Applet{
     
    	Image img;
     
    	public void init(){
    		img=getImage(getDocumentBase(), getParameter("file"));
    	}
     
    	public void draw(Graphics g){
    		g.drawImage(img,0,0,this);
    	}
    }

    ======HTML======
    <applet code="Game" width=1000 height=550>
    <param name="file" value="Menu.png">
    </applet>

    If anyone has any advice for me I would really appreciate it. For this simple game, I was thinking each class would be responsible for drawing it's own images, that is why I do not want to draw this in the Game class.

    I tried looking in my Java text book, but they do not go far into this topic, and the online resources I have looked up have been hard to understand.

    Post if more details are needed!


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    Default Re: Java Applet

    I'm not exactly sure what your actual question is. Which part of this is giving you trouble?
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    Default Re: Java Applet

    If you want two applets on the html page, add another <applet tag to your html for the MainMenu class.
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    Default Re: Java Applet

    My question is this: How do I display an image in my web browser involving at least 2 classes. One class acting as something like a HUB, and it calls to another class to draw that image.

    The code above is an attempt to do that, but it doesn't work.

    I am a new Java programmer so sorry if the question is confusing.

    The ultimate goal might be to make some kind of simple game.

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    Norm: I didn't think of that, I'll give that a try also... but I can see how it might get sloppy if I end up with a lot of images.

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    So you only want one applet? Then only one class should extend Applet (or better yet, JApplet).

    Then you just instantiate whatever other classes you want and call them when appropriate. For example:

    public class AppletClass extends JApplet{
       PlayerClass p = new PlayerClass();
     
       public void paint(Graphics g){
          p.drawMe(g);
       }
     
    }
     
    public class PlayerClass{
       int x;
       int y;
     
       public void drawMe(Graphics g){
          g.drawOval(x, y, 10, 10);
       }
    }
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    Default Re: Java Applet

    KevinWorkman: I understand your example and I like it, but the part that is still confusing me is this: what would I replace g.drawOval(x, y, 10, 10); with in order to print an image I have on my hard drive?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ludicrous View Post
    KevinWorkman: I understand your example and I like it, but the part that is still confusing me is this: what would I replace g.drawOval(x, y, 10, 10); with in order to print an image I have on my hard drive?
    Well, how do you draw an image now? Keep in mind that if you're running an applet, you're going to probably want to have the images be relative to the class files and not read from the hard drive (or better yet, you should package them all up into a jar).
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    I am an idiot. Problem solved - Thanks to everyone who replied

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