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Foil 85 Some Basic Methods for Applets -- I

From CRPC Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics CRPC Annual Meeting Tutorial -- May 14,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 Some of These are in Applet and some in parent (in particular Component)
2 public void init() is called ONCE and ONCE only when the applet is loaded or reloaded. Set initial parameters etc. here.
3 public void destroy() is what you do when Applet is entirely finished and you need to clean up stray threads or connections to be closed.
4 public void start() is called whenever the applet is started which can happen several times during an applet's life-cycle as it starts each time you revisit a page
5 public void stop() is called when we temporarily leave Applet to visit another page. A wise move would be to suspend running of Threads to save system resources.

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