Size of a JApplet

Question

Hello everyone,
I made an applet but when I display it in a browser, it doesn't react on the HTML tag for width and heigth. It remains pretty small, no matter what i enter as heigth and width. Can any1 help me with this?
Regards,
Frans

Answer 1

Do you have to implement this as an applet? What about a stand-alone Swing application? Then you can use JFrame's pack method to give the frame its preferred size:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class FrameExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                launchGUI();
    static void launchGUI() {
        JPanel cp = new JPanel(new BorderLayout());
        JToolBar tb = new JToolBar();
        tb.add(new JButton("button 0"));
        tb.add(new JButton("button 1"));
        tb.add(new JButton("button 2"));
        cp.add(tb, BorderLayout.NORTH);
        JScrollPane sp = new JScrollPane(new JTextArea(40,80));
        sp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(400, 300));
        cp.add(sp, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        JFrame f = new JFrame("FrameExample");
        f.setContentPane(cp);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
}