Program to display rolling banner using repaint( ) method of an Applet

This is a very interesting applet program in which we are displaying a rolling banner like marquee tag in HTML. The banner message is passed in applet's <PARAM> tag.


PROGRAM

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;

/*
<applet code="ParamBanner" width=300 height=50>
<param name="message" value="Java makes the Web move!">
</applet>
*/

public class ParamBanner extends Applet implements Runnable {
 String msg;
 Thread t = null;
 int state;
 boolean stopFlag;
 // Set colors and initialize thread.
 public void init() {
  setBackground(Color.cyan);
  setForeground(Color.red);
 }
 // Start thread
 public void start() {
  msg = getParameter("message");
  if(msg == null) msg = "Message not found.";
   msg = " " + msg;
  t = new Thread(this);
  stopFlag = false;
  t.start();
 }
 // Entry point for the thread that runs the banner.
 public void run() {
  char ch;
  // Display banner
  for( ; ; ) {
   try {
    repaint();
    Thread.sleep(250);
    ch = msg.charAt(0);
    msg = msg.substring(1, msg.length());
    msg += ch;
    if(stopFlag)
     break;
   } catch(InterruptedException e) {}
  }
 }
 // Pause the banner.
 public void stop() {
  stopFlag = true;
  t = null;
 }
 // Display the banner.
 public void paint(Graphics g) {
  g.drawString(msg, 50, 30);
 }
}

OUTPUT

C:\>javac ParamBanner.java
C:\>appletviewer ParamBanner.java