Applet Viewers Don't lke my applet

Question

As far as I can tell they just don't like my applet.
I have two other applets and they work fine.
The status bar shows Starting Applet... (I have breakpoints on every method, public void start() is not executed)
Then it shows Applet Loaded, and freezes.
I am using Eclipse 3.0.1, and I use the debugger, but nothing but the constructor gets excecuted.
I have checked everything I know about applets against the other applets, but as far as I can tell this one isn't missing anything. It has:
public void start()
public void init()
public <init>()
and they all have breakpoints, just the constructor gets excecuted, then it just freezes, the Applet menu won't even work.
Please advise.

Answer 1

It will pause the thread when it interprets a line
with an Eclipse Breakpoint on it, then it highlights [etc]Yeah that's how a debugger works. The question is what triggers some of the methods in your class to get invoked.
If the methods aren't even being invoked, the problem isn't your class, the problem is in the thing that calls your class. So that's either Eclipse, or more likely you're not using it right. For example maybe you're assuming that the init and start methods should get called even when they wouldn't.
Now, any ideas why the applet viewer freezes, and the
browser crashes when they load my applet?In this case, the problem is in your class. I'm guessing you have an infinite loop.
You may want to try using the debugger on a class that looks like this:
public class TestApplet {
  public static void main(String[] argv) {
    Applet a = new MyApplet();
    a.init();
    a.start();
    a.stop();
}