March 20, 1997

Question: Is it possible to pass a method to another class,so that method can be called by that class at a later date?For example, in C you can pass an

Question: What is the difference between the types’float’ and ‘Float’ in Java? Answer: A variable of type float contains an IEEE single precision number,while a variable of type Float contains

Question: I would like to create a very simple applet that pings anIP address and returns a message stating whether that IP is alive. Icouldn’t find any straightforward answers to

Question: I’ve been to sites where dialog boxes appear. How can I create one?I also want to ask users for their names, and then to be able to tell how

Question: How do I include reserved characters suchas double-quote in the strings passed to an applet from a PARAM tag?Standard SGML entities don’t work; the UNIX backslash method doesn’t work.

Question: Why doesn’t the window.close() method always work? Answer: In JavaScript 2.0, the window.close() method could be used to close any open browser window. People being the malicious animals that

Question: Where can I find algorithms and data structures, techniques and programs that will better show me how they can be implemented using ANSI C? Other areas include Hashing, Heaps,

Question: How do I create a TextField that handles a password?What are the KEY_ACTION events associated with it? Answer: The setEchoCharacter() method within the TextField class allows youto do precisely

Question: I would like to be able to browse my server and havean applet/program that would mimic the functions of,say, the control panel on a Macintosh.Would I needto write a