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Foil 35 <param> Tags and Applets

From Jan 22 Delivered Lecture for Course CPS616 -- Java Lecture 1 -- Overview CPS616 spring 1997 -- Jan 22 1997. by Nancy McCracken * See also color IMAGE
Secs 43.2
The applet tag can be followed by parameters:
  • <applet . . . >
  • <param name=attributename1 value="attributevalue1" >
  • .......
  • <param name=attributenameN value="attributevalueN" >
  • </applet>
The Java program accesses this information by
  • String attribute;
  • attribute = getParamter("attributename1");
  • if( attribute == null )
  • attribute = yourdefaultvalue;
    • // null is Java way of saying unset
Typically this processing would be in init() method of Applet
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