Thread: Passing parameters to an Applet

I am in the throws of passing parameters to an applet using getParameter method. I am completely new to HTML tags.
Here is the code:

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
/*
 *
  <applet code="ParamDemo" width=100 height=80>
    <param name=fontName value="Courier">
    <param name=fontSize value="14">
    <param name=leading  value="2">
    <param name=accountEnabled value=true>
</applet>
 */
//use ParamDemo
 
public class ParamDemo extends Applet {
    String fontName;
    int fontSize;
    float leading;
    boolean active;
    public void start(){
        String param;
 
        fontName=getParameter("fontName");
        if (fontName==null)
            fontName="Font Not Found";
 
        param=getParameter("fontsize");
        try{
            if (param !=null)
                fontSize=Integer.parseInt(param);
            else fontSize=0;
        }catch(NumberFormatException e){
            fontSize=-1;
        }
        param=getParameter("leading");
        try{
            if (param !=null)
               leading=Float.valueOf(param).floatValue();
            else fontSize=0;
        }catch(NumberFormatException e){
            leading=-1;
    }
        param=getParameter("accountEnabled");
        if(param!=null)
            active=Boolean.valueOf(param).booleanValue();
 
}
    public void paint(Graphics g){
        g.drawString("Fontname:   "+fontName, 0, 10);
        g.drawString("FontSize:   "+fontSize, 0, 26);
        g.drawString("leading     "+leading, 0, 42);
        g.drawString("AccoumtActive "+active, 0, 58);
    }
}

No parameter is being passed to the applet.
I tried debugging the code but param variable is always set to null. What's wrong?

Originally Posted by Fabgio

What's wrong?

Good question. What does it do? What should it do instead?
Where does getParameter get information from?... what information is there?... Verify it is present and available to the Applet.

I have just solved the problem. Following your tip I verified the information source was present. So I commented out the HTML block and exported it to an HTML file. So everything works! I made a silly mistake though....Thank you so much!

Glad you got it working. Thank you for marking your thread solved too