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Question: This may be too vague, but:I spawn a thread (after a button click) which bringsup a new window. This works great on my PC runningNetscape 3.0 and Internet Explorer,

Question: Is it possible to launch another application from aJava application (not an applet)? Answer: Yes. There are two classes of interest for performingsystem level functions such as this: java.lang.Runtime

Question: What is the purpose of the Thread.interrupt()method? I expect that if I call the interrupt()method of a sleeping thread, anInterruptedException will be thrown. Here is aquick code sample showing

Question: What is the maximum size of a string array I can have in my applet?I am trying to store some stock prices in a string array after reading themfrom

Question: I am new to Java and am currently trying toassociate idioms and techniques from otherlanguages/environments with like capabilities inJava. Specifically, I am trying to determine howto perform inter-thread and

Question: When I add the code ‘update.text := dateToStr(Date)’ toOnUpdateChange of the DataSource, it works some of the time. Forexample, if the record is posted by moving to another record,

Question: What do the PRIVATE, PROTECTED, PUBLIC and PUBLISHED sections of a unit mean? Answer: They define the level of visibility of properties and methods of an object. In a

Question: How do you tell the amount of data contained in aTMemo component? Delphi1 has a finite TMemo limit and I want to check the available size beforeadding new text.

Question: How can I create a Delphi program without VCL components? Answer: This code is pretty useless, but is meant to demonstrate that youdo not need to use the VCL