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Hi.  I am just getting into Java, and pulled the following code from a book.
I haven't purchased JBuilder, yet, I'm still experimenting with the language
to see if I like it at all and if it will work well for the tasks I need to
accomplish.

The following code was compiled using the JDK on a Linux system.  It works
fine when
the web page is viewed from Navigator 4.04 (on the Linux system), but the
text doesn't show up when viewed from IE4.  Any insight?

import java.lang.* ;
import java.awt.* ;

public class Test extends java.applet.Applet {
     String userstring = null ;

     public void init() {
          userstring = getParameter( "mystring" ) ;
     }

     public void start() {
          Dimension d = preferredSize() ;
          resize( d ) ;
          repaint() ;
     }

     public void paint( Graphics g ) {
          String outstr ;
          outstr = "I've got a lovely bunch of " + userstring ;
          g.setColor( Color.red ) ;
          g.drawString( outstr, 20, 50 ) ;
     }
}

The parameter is set in the HTML.

The web page URL is http://members.xoom.com/Kobalos/JavaTest.html