Any applet can request the browser that contains it to show a new web
page by passing the new URL into the showDocument( )
method. Usually, the browser replaces the current page
with the target page. This, of course, triggers a call to the
applet’s stop( )
method.
Note that the applet shown in Example 17-3 only works correctly in a full browser; the AppletViewer does not display HTML pages, so it ignores this method!
Example 17-3. ShowDocApplet.java
/** ShowDocApplet: Demonstrate showDocument( ). */ public class ShowDocApplet extends Applet { // String targetString = "http://www.darwinsys.com/javacook/secret.html"; String targetString = "file:///c:/javasrc/network/ShowDocApplet.java"; /** The URL to go to */ URL targetURL; /** Initialize the Applet */ public void init( ) { setBackground(Color.gray); try { targetURL = new URL(targetString); } catch (MalformedURLException mfu) { throw new IllegalArgumentException( "ShowDocApplet got bad URL " + targetString); } Button b = new Button("View Secret"); add(b); b.addActionListener(new ActionListener( ) { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { getAppletContext( ).showDocument(targetURL); } }); } public void stop( ) { System.out.println("Ack! Its been fun being an Applet. Goodbye!"); } }
Figure 17-2 shows the program in operation.
If the URL is unreachable, the browser will notify the user with a dialog, and the current page (including the applet) will be left in view.
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