Component resizing in applets

Question

Can any one help with my problem. I am creating an applet and would like to increase the size of buttons and text to help visualy people. In my research it i have found that once you call init(), components can not be redrawn. Is this true? Does anyone know how to or where i can readup on, resizing buttons and textfields.
Many thanks in advance

Answer 1

IF you use awt and don't specify a layout it goes to flow layout by default, so here's one way of doing itimport java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class aButton extends java.applet.Applet implements ActionListener {
   Button b;
   int size = 16;
   Font f1 = new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, 14);
   public void init() {
      b=new Button("some text");
      b.addActionListener(this);
      b.setFont(f1);
      add(b);
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt){
      if(evt.getSource()==b){
         size = size+2;
         Font f1 = new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, size);
         b.setFont(f1);
      validate();
}