Help with passing variables

[Randy]

I have been working with the following code with no sucess.
The needed result is to print the variable to the applet. In the future
I also want to send a query string to an asp page containing the variable.

public class test17 extends Applet{
public String theName;
public void main(String args[]) {
theName ="testing";
}
public void paint (Graphics g) {
g.setFont(new Font("Helvetica",Font.PLAIN,12));
g.drawString("Name:"+theName, 10, 250);
}

Thank you for any help with this.

Randy

[UP]

DO you really want to use main method with applet? and again if you want to
convert that applet to an application syntex of main method is public static
void main(String[] args)

"Randy" <randy@psi-games.com> wrote:
>
>I have been working with the following code with no sucess.
>The needed result is to print the variable to the applet. In the future

>I also want to send a query string to an asp page containing the variable.
>
>public class test17 extends Applet{
>public String theName;
>public void main(String args[]) {
> theName ="testing";
> }
>public void paint (Graphics g) {
> g.setFont(new Font("Helvetica",Font.PLAIN,12));
> g.drawString("Name:"+theName, 10, 250);
> }
>
>Thank you for any help with this.
>
>Randy