Applet loaded in applets?

Question

hi all,
I'm trying a java applet for jre1.0.
it is supposed to first paint background color and the words that says loading.
then it's supposed to load classes images etc as need in the background -- ideally showing a nice status bar of progress.
I'm guessing that to accomplish this, I would cast the existing thread (the one created in the start method of the first applet ex Thread runner = new Thread(this) ) to another class and let that class take over the loading process
could someone please explain the general approach for having new classes that take over what is happennig on the applet screen
Thanks in advance
Stephen

Answer 1

I'm not sure how you'd go about getting the current progress ..
public class MyApplet extends Applet {
    init() {
        setLayout(new BorderLayout());
        add(new ProgressPanel());
    start() {
        ClassLoader loader = new URLClassLoader(secondURL);
        Class panelClass = loader.findClass("MyPanel");
        add((Panel)panelClass.newInstance());
}I think URLClassLoader is Java 1.2. If you need it under 1.1 you might need to do it some other way.