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Links In Applets

Posted by sanjay ambardar on January 30, 2001 at 10:32 PM

> > There are many ways to do that. I don't know what is your requirement regarding GUI. I will tell you how to go to new page from an applet. Let me know the actual GUI requiremnt then I will tell you exact procedure.
> > To open a new page from applet use
> > getAppletContext().showDocument ( "your new page URL" ) ;
> > or,
> > getAppletContext().showDocument ( "your new page URL", "target ie. which window will display the page" ) ;
> > Here getAppletContext() is a method of Applet class which returns an object of a class which implements AppletContext interface.
> > In simplest implementation you can write the above code in button clicked event.
> > Thanx
> > Kishori

> Thanks a lot kishori!! My actual requirement is to click on the URL itseelf on the Applet and then go to that web page. So it has to look like following

> "In Order to see the contact information please go to the "

> The URL will be a web site address. I want to know which event can I capture in this regard as the User has to click on the URL itself. So I will not be able to use the button

> Thanks

Sorry kishori I missed a tiny thing in the prevoius question. So the text has to look like this

"In Order to see the contact information please go to the 'URL' "

I didn't write word URL in my previous question

• Here it is... Kishori Sharan January 31, 2001 at 12:20 AM (3)
  • Links In Applets - I cannot use jdk 1.2 Sanjay Ambardar January 31, 2001 at 10:13 AM (2)
    • you can do it in JDk1.1 Kishori Sharan January 31, 2001 at 1:27 PM (1)
      • Links In Applets Sanjay Ambardar February 05, 2001 at 1:18 AM (0)