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The Perfectly Finished Applet
The
previous page lists some of the ways
you can avoid making your applet's users want to throttle you.
This page tells you about some other ways
that you can make dealing with your applet as pleasant as possible.
- Make your applet as flexible as possible.
- You can often define parameters
that let your applet be used in a variety of situations
without any rewriting.
See
Defining and Using Applet Parameters for more information.
- Make your applet accessible.
- You can design your applet so that it is accessible to all.
See
How to Support Assistive Technologies for more information.
- Implement the
getParameterInfo
method.
- Implementing this method now
might make your applet easier to customize in the future.
Currently, no browsers use this method.
Soon, however, we expect browsers to use this method
to help generate a GUI that allows the user
to interactively set parameter values.
See
Giving Information about Parameters for information on implementing
getParameterInfo
.
- Implement the
getAppletInfo
method.
- This method returns a short, informative string describing an applet.
Although no browsers currently use this method,
we expect them to in the future.
Here's an example of implementing
getAppletInfo
:
public String getAppletInfo() {
return "GetApplets by Kathy Walrath";
}