🚀 go-pugleaf

First off let me apologize for the crossposting and for the english post to
a danish newsgroup.

Below is a stripped version of an applet, I've been trying to get to work
for the last week or so.
What it's supposed to do:

Get some images from the net (duh) and place them with pixel-precision.

I use the method
    private Image ReadImageFromURL( String image )
to return the apropriate image (we can't have inapropriate images in a
decent program), which basically just uses
    Applet.getImage(URL url, String name)
to return the image. It forms the URL from the variables
    String ImageHost, ImageDirectory

I can get this to work in AppletViewer, but I'll be a cross eyed monkey, if
it will work in a browser. This is rather unfortunate, as I need this to
work in a browser. I will gladly sacrifice my oldest child (at this point in
time) to anyone who can get this to work in a browser; I will up the ante
with my youngest child (at this point in time), if the same person can tell
me why my puny attempt doesn't work like it's supposed to.


/************************ start of applet ************************/
/******************* beware forced line breaks *******************/
import java.applet.Applet;

import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Label;

import java.io.InputStream;

import java.net.URL;

public class
Applet_That_Will_Not_Work_No_Matter_What_I_Try_Which_Is_Why_I_Need_Your_Help
extends Applet implements /*Helpless_Programmer, Annoying_Piece_Of_Shit*/
Runnable
  {
    Thread RunningThread;
    Image Buffer;
    Graphics GraphicsBuffer;

    String ImageHost = "http://";
    String ImageDirectory = "/img/";
    Image Background;

    public void init()
      {
        ImageHost +=  getCodeBase().getHost();
        setSize( 1013, 609 );
        Buffer = createImage(size().width,size().height);
        GraphicsBuffer = Buffer.getGraphics();
        initImages();
      }

    public void start()
      {
        if (RunningThread == null)
          {
            RunningThread = new Thread (this);
            RunningThread.start();
          }
      }

    public void stop()
      {
        if (RunningThread != null)
          {
            RunningThread.stop();
            RunningThread = null;
          }
      }

    public void run()
      {
        while(true)
          {
            drawImages();
            repaint();
            System.out.println("repaint()");
            Sleep( 5000 );
          }
      }

    private void Sleep( int time )
      {
        try
          {
            RunningThread.sleep( time );
          }
        catch( InterruptedException e )
          {
            e = null;
          }
      }

    public void update(Graphics g)
      {
        paint(g);
      }

    public void paint(Graphics g)
      {
        g.drawImage (Buffer,0,0, this);
      }

    private Image ReadImageFromURL( String image )
      {
        try
          {
            return getImage( new URL( ImageHost ), ImageDirectory + image );
          }
        catch( Exception e )
          {
            e.printStackTrace();
            e = null;
          }

        return null;
      }

    private void drawImage( Image ImageToManipulate, int x_coords, int
y_coords, int width, int height )
      {
        GraphicsBuffer.drawImage(ImageToManipulate, x_coords, y_coords,
width, height, null);
      }

    private void drawImages()
      {
        drawImage( Background,               0, 0, 1013, 609 );
      }

    private void initImages()
      {
        Background       = ReadImageFromURL( "ventilationsanlaeg.png" );
      }
  }
/************************* end of applet *************************/

And in case you're wondering, no - I don't have any children, which is why
I'm willing to sacrifice them only at this point in time.

Sincerely and frustrated
Martin Schou