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Foil 45 <param> Tags and Applets

From Basic Lectures on Java Language Applets Graphics Networking Trip to China and Icase Tutorial -- July 12-28 and June 10-13 96. by Geoffrey C. Fox * See also color IMAGE
<applet .... > can be followed by
<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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