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Foil 16 <param> Tags and Applets

From Introduction to Java Language and Applets CPS406/606 Fall Semester 1999 -- September 2 99. by Nancy J. McCracken, Geoffrey C. Fox
1 The applet tag can be followed by parameters:
2 <applet . . . >
3 <param name=attributename1 value="attributevalue1" >
4 .......
5 <param name=attributenameN value="attributevalueN" >
6 </applet>
7 The Java program accesses this information by
8 String attribute;
9 attribute = getParameter("attributename1");
10 if( attribute == null )
11 attribute = yourdefaultvalue;
12 // null is Java way of saying unset
13 Typically this processing would be in init() method of Applet
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