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Links In Applets

Posted by Sanjay Ambardar on February 05, 2001 at 1:18 AM

> You can still use it. Just use Label instead of JLabel. YOu can change the color of the text in Label so that it may look different. I don't know how to underline a text in JDK v1.1 . You can also try to underline the text. Or, you can try it by dwawing a the text on a panel and th edraw a line of the same size as the text below it and write the same clicked event

>
> ////////////////////////

> import java.net.* ;
> import java.awt.*;
> import java.awt.event.*;
> import java.applet.* ;

>
> public class Applet1 extends Applet {
> Label lb = new Label ( "Go to Yahoo" ) ;
>
> public void init ( ) {
> add ( lb ) ;
> add ( new Button ( "Does nothing" ) ) ;
> // Change the mouse cursor
> lb.setCursor ( new Cursor ( Cursor.HAND_CURSOR )) ;
>
> // Set the color of label as blue and underline it so that
> // it looks as a link
> lb.setForeground ( Color.blue ) ;
>
> lb.addMouseListener (
> new MouseAdapter ( ) {
> public void mouseClicked ( MouseEvent e ) {
> try {
> AppletContext ac = Applet1.this.getAppletContext ( ) ;
> URL url = new URL ( "http://www.yahoo.com" ) ;
> ac.showDocument ( url ) ;
> }
> catch ( Exception ex ) { }
> }
> }
> );
> }

> }

Thanks Kishori,

I just want to know why have you used add ( new Button ( "Does nothing" ) ) in the code. Also when I move the mouse I don't get the events for the label but instead I get them when I move the mouse in and out of the frame in which they are painted!! Why so

Thanks a lot
Sanjay