Applet Viewer

The Applet Viewer displays applets running in the IDE.  (Note: This is the applet viewer shipped with the JDK). You can run multiple applets concurrently (in multiple Applet Viewers), and can make run-time changes to them by altering the code and reloading the applet.  The Console window will display standard output from the applet; the Console is also where you supply standard input for the applet.

The Applet Viewer's Applet menu has the following options:

Option Description
Restart Restarts the loaded applet from the beginning.
Reload Reloads all code and resources associated with the applet.
Stop Stops the running applet.
Save Saves the applet as a serialized object to a file.
Start Starts the applet, starting at the point in the code at which it was stopped.
Clone Opens another Applet Viewer on the same applet.
Tag Displays the HTML tags for the applet.
Info Displays information on the applet and its parameters.
Character
Encoding
Shows the type of character encoding that is used for character conversion.
Print Print the applet
Properties Displays the Applet Viewer Properties, where you can change the following settings:
  • Http proxy server
  • Http proxy port
  • Network Access
  • Class Access
  • Allow Unsigned Applets
Close Closes the applet viewer and reclaims resources.
Quit Closes the applet viewer.

For more information about the Applet Viewer, please see the JDK documentation on the world wide web.

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Running an Applet from the IDE
Making Run-Time Changes to an Applet