Applet Life Cycle

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Applet Life Cycle

• Ralph Westfall
• February 2002

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Built In Applet Methods

• Applet class has built in methods
• new Applets inherit these from the class
• these methods can be overridden (replaced) by
  programmer-written methods with same name and
  added capabilities
• init()
• runs when Applet loads into browser

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Built In Applet Methods - 2

• start()
• runs after init()
• also runs when return to its web page
• stop()
• runs when user goes to another page
• also runs when browser is minimized
• destroy()
• when browser is closed

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Applet Life Cycle

• init() runs when browser loads the web page with
  the Applet
• browser calls start()
• also runs when return to page
• stop() runs when user leaves page
• also runs when close browser
• destroy() runs after stop() when user closes
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