Moving two seperate images in an applet

Question

Hi i am trying to move two seperate images on an applet. these images are two random cards from a pack of playing card, ie king,jack, queen etc..
i can get both images moving at the same time but i want i want to do is to animate the movement of one image and when it raches a certain point onscreen, the other image moves to a different position onscreen and i should end up with both card images onscreen at different positions.
here is the code for the part in which the applet draws the image to the graphics object:
public void run()
        long tm = System.currentTimeMillis();
         while(Thread.currentThread() == t)
             repaint();
             try
                 tm += delay;
                 Thread.sleep(Math.max(0, tm - System.currentTimeMillis()));
                 //increment frame so that image moves 4 pixels at a time
                 f1 = f1 + 4;
                 f2 = f2 + 5;
                 f3 = f3 + 2;
                 f4 = f4 + 2;
             catch(InterruptedException e)
                 break;
    public void stop()
        t = null;
    public void update(Graphics g)
        //code that generates 5 random card and animate them onscreen.
        Dimension d = size();
        int w = cards[r1].getWidth(this);
        int h = cards[r1].getHeight(this);
        if(f1 <= 100)
            // Erase the previous image
            g.setColor(getBackground());
            g.fillRect(0, 0, d.width, d.height);
            g.setColor(Color.black);
            g.drawImage(cards[r1], f2, f1, this);  //co ordinates
            if((r1 != r2) && (f1 == 100 ) && (f3 <= 300))
                g.drawImage(cards[r2], f4, f3, this);  //co ordinates
        //g.drawImage(cards[r2], f4, f3, this);  //co ordinates
    }Has u can see from the above code. all 52 card images are stored in an array. I use a random function to generate a random image from the array, in this case two random images.
i have used if statements that tell me when to stop the animation of an image and when to start the next image for animation using the f1,f2,f3 etc.. these are used for the co ordinates of the actual images.
i increment them each time the applet is run from within a Thread.

Answer 1

Sounds like you just need a little swing(or awt if you're using "old java")
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/mini/index.html
BorderLayout might be useful. Be aware that it can be tricky to switch out swing components and you may need to validate the container.
Also, be aware that a "Frame"(JFrame) in java are what you would call a window and that a "Panel"(JPanel) in java is basically just an area that contains components, kinda like a <div> or <span> in html.