A few simple how-to's...

[Jareware]

Weee! I finally have java compiler working home too (thanks VirtuallyVB and Dilenger4), now just would like to know a few simple (?) things:

1) How can you play a sound in Java?

2) How can you paint from a jpg or gif file?

3) How con you make a link to another file (like if you click a button, a download is initiated)?


-JR-

[billrogers]

Well you really need to be more specific here, for are you going to building an applet or an application? They have different methods to play and load images, so you will need to figure out what you want from there.

[Jareware]

Would there be a common method that would work in both? If not, an applet would be my target...


-JR-

[Dillinger4]

Im happy your happy JWare! You should buy(or unless you already have) some books on Java. A good reference book is JAVA in a nutshell by O'Reilly and
if you want to do any GUI programming JAVA Swing
by O'Reilly is pretty good. For IO try JAVA IO by Elliotte Rusty Harold(another O'Reilly book)Try and learn stuff in chunks. IO,GUI, ect.... then bring it all togther.
Good Luck.....

[Jareware]

I know, I should probaby get some books on the topic... but do you guys know how to do these things?


-JR-

1) If you are using Sun's Java, there is a demo in baseDir\demo\sound "jdk1.3\demo\sound".

2) Not sure what you mean here. I've used java.awt.Image to load a graphic from a hard drive and then painted it inside a java.awt.Panel.

transient public static Image[] images = new Image[12];

 static{
  images[0] = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage("..\\chessmen\\Wking.gif");
/...

3) Since you mentioned a button, I'd say use the java.net.URL class and network IO to read a stream.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ing/index.html
If you didn't mention the button, I was thinking of when I was trying to write my own browser and the above code would need to be executed on javax.swing.JEditorPane in the javax.swing.event.HyperlinkEvent

[Jareware]

Okay, I'll get back to this thread again, not able now... but thanks for the code, I'll try it out when have the chance.


-JR-