Name: [011] John Montgomery
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[062] The 'Hello World' Applet - Part 4 (5/10)

in series: Writing an Applet with Java

video tutorial by John Montgomery

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Animation is an essential ingredient of a good demo applet. In this ShowMeDo John demonstrates using a thread for animation.

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Uploaded on 17th September 2006, running time 7 minutes.

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4. anonymous Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:55

Great tutorial. Thanks a lot!


3. anonymous Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:32

Very useful tutorial.

I am now 100% sure that learning how to develop java applets is a waste of both time and energy.

It's so much easier to develop in-browser apps on the flash platform with actionscript. You're not forced to use *3* different functions just to redraw the screen, and there's none of this "synchronized( bufferLock )" nonsense. Instead, you just set your frame rate, register the desired event listeners, and then proceed to draw whatever.


Nice - thanks for taking the time to make the video! A bit of explanation on how the synchronized blocks work would have been nice.


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