[1957] in java-interest
Re: Calling Applets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Wason)
Wed Sep 20 15:10:31 1995
To: java-interest@java.Eng.Sun.COM
In-Reply-To: Message from Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@eng.sun.com>
of "Tue, 19 Sep 95 13:16:01 -0800." <Roam.1.2.811541761.6926.avh@acorn>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 95 12:06:55 -0400
From: Andrew Wason <aw@bae.bellcore.com>
Arthur van Hoff <Arthur.Vanhoff@eng.sun.com> writes:
>
>
> Hi Mary,
>
> > I have a question about Applet communication.
> >
> > I have an applet that requests input from the user and
> > then invokes another applet when the user hits the 'OK' button.
> >
> > How do I display the new applet, passing the user input to it,
> > using the beta API?
> >
> > I quess the question is can an applet display another applet
> > and pass data into it?
>
> You can't do that easilly, although I have seen applets that generate html on
> the fly and jump to it. The new APIs only let you access the applets that are
> on the same page.
In alpha3 you could subclass both applets from a common base
class and use a static class variable to communicate between
instances of that class on different pages. I would think that
would still work in the beta.
Andrew
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