Dividing the applet in 2 sections

Question

Hello
I have a really simple game in applet. Game runs fine, at the bottom i want to add a scrollbar which will have a textArea in it. So basically i want to divide the applet in 2 parts...top part the game and bottom part the scrollbar. Any tips on how to do this?
I want the game to run in size (450,500) and then extend the applet's y cordinate by 200 more and in that extra area add the scrollbar. My game is using the init method. When game is over and player double clicks the applet to start the game over....the init method is called again. So i dont think i can add the scrollbar in the init method. Maybe i have to make 2 differnt classes? one for the game and one for the scrollbar? but out of those which will run the final applet?
As u can tell...kind of confused here. Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

the init() method would not be called. The init() method of the applet is
called automatically when the Applet is loaded.
you can simply ruse the scrollbar...when the new game start..just set the visibility of the scrollbar to false (so to hide the scrollbar)
when you need the scrollbar..just set its visibility to true
for example
public class Game extends JApplet{
    private JScrollBar scrollbar;
    private JTextArea txtArea;
    private Box mainPanel;
    public void init(){
        // create the component once
        scrollbar = new JScrollBar(); ...
        txtArea = new JTextArea();
        mainPanel = Box.createVerticalBox();
        mainPanel.add(txtArea);
        mainPanel.add(scrollbar);       
        initComponent();
    public void initComponent(){
        showScrollbar();     // hide the scrollbar
        txtArea.setText("");  // clear the text area..so a new game will have a blank textarea
    public void showScrollBar(){ scrollbar.setVisible(true);  }
    public void hidesScrollBar(){ scrollBar.setVisible(false; }
}