Problem: Images won't show up in animation.

Question

I'm trying to get a series of images to animate in an applet. So far I haven't been able to work out what I've done wrong/altered incorrectly, because all I get on the applet is a blank light grey background. None of the pictures will show up, even though they are in the same directory.
The images are named F0.jpg, F1.jpg etc all the way up to F10.jpg.
Any help would be most appreciated since I can't see any part of the coding that would affect the images not showing up.
Thanks!
import java.awt.*;
public class FMAni extends javax.swing.JApplet
   implements Runnable {
   Image[] picture = new Image[11];
   int totalPictures = 11;  // determines how many different images will be displayed.
   int current = 0;
   Thread runner;
   int pause = 500; // specifies the speed of the animation.
   public void init() {
     for (int i = 0; i < 11; i++) {
       String imageText = null;
       imageText = getParameter("F" +i+ ".jpg");
       if (imageText != null) {
         totalPictures++;
         picture[i] = getImage(getCodeBase(), "F0.jpg");
       } else
         break;
     String pauseText = null;
     pauseText = getParameter("pause");
     if (pauseText != null) {
       pause = Integer.parseInt(pauseText);  // converts the text into an integer.
   public void paint(Graphics screen) {
     super.paint(screen);
     Graphics2D screen2D = (Graphics2D) screen;
     if (picture[current] != null)
       screen2D.drawImage(picture[current], 0, 0, this);
   public void start() {
     if (runner == null) {
       runner = new Thread(this);
       runner.start();
   public void run() {
     Thread thisThread = Thread.currentThread();
     while (runner == thisThread) {  // causes following to loop until something causes the two thread objects to have different values.
       repaint();
       current++;
       if (current >= totalPictures)
         current = 0;
       try {
         Thread.sleep(pause); // determines how long each image is displayed until the next image is shown.
       } catch (InterruptedException e) { }
   public void stop() {
     if (runner != null) {
       runner = null;
}

Answer 1

I think so. Why not have a look and be sure? Simply print the references.
The images are all in the same folder as
the java files. I've tried tweaking that part
slightly to see if any slight alteration might make a
difference, but so far I've found nothing works.That only means that you didn't get it correct in other attempts. You can't conclude that it's correct from that...
Then again, I'm not all that experienced with java.
So I could be screwing up royally and not really
knowing it.Haven't touched Applets for a long time, but since you ask here rather than at the Swing forum, I have three guesses:
1) Image file can't be read by Java. But I think it can handle jpgs.
2) Image file not found.
3) Image file found but not yet loaded. Try using ImageIcon instead in that case. it blocks until the image is available.