Calling getAppletContext() from a working thread.

Hi guys,
I'm new to Java so all apologies if I'm asking a stupied question.
I have a simple applet that creates a working thread and I'm tring to call getAppletContext() from that thread.
Obviously my working thread has no instance of the Applet class so it fails.
I've try to create an instance of Applet, but I'm getting an error saying that the applet is not initialised.
This is my code:
class MyThread extends Thread
    String ThreadName;
    public MyThread(String threadName)
        ThreadName = threadName;
    @Override public void run()
        // ??? How to make the following line work ???
        getAppletContext().showDocument(new URL("javascript:alert(\"Calling from myThread\")"));
public class MyApplet extends Applet {
     public void init()
        // The following line works!
        getAppletContext().showDocument(new URL("javascript:alert(\"Calling from MyApplet)"));
        Thread WorkingThread = new MyThread("Thread1");
        WorkingThread.start();
}{code}
Please help,
Many thanks!
Salvador

Got it.
I needed to pass the keyword this to the thread constructor and then use that....
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