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I need to draw a few hundred asterisks at random places and in random colors, then write my name over the top. I need to pass in my name to the applet as a PARAM from the html page. I think I know how to do this but I have no idea how to draw the random asterisks in random colors. ONce again any help would be much appreciated, everyone has been great so far.
Steve
O.K, here is what I have so far:
import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class NameInLights extends Applet
{
Font header= new Font("SanSerif",Font.BOLD,24);
String text;
public void init()
{
text= getParameter("message");
if(text==null)
text="nothing to say";
}
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
g.setFont(header);
for(int i=0;i<100;i++);
{
int x = (int)(Math.random() * 399);
int y = (int)(Math.random() * 399);
int red = (int)(Math.random() * 256); //random rgb values
int green = (int)(Math.random() * 256);
int blue = (int)(Math.random() * 256);
Color asterisk = new Color(red,green,blue);
g.setColor(asterisk);
g.drawString("*",x,y);
}
g.drawString(text, 100,100);
}
};
And here is my HTML code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE> New Document </TITLE>
<META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="EditPlus">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Applet output:</P>
APPLET CODE="NameInLights" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="400">
<PARAM NAME = message VALUE="STEVE">
</APPLET></P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
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It all compiles O.K but I get this message in my MSDOS window:
Warning: <Param> tag outside <applet> ... </applet>.
Does anyone know what this means and how I could possibly get my program to work. Thanks for your time.
Cheers
Steve
Problem solved!
Cheers
Steve
