The Controls

Internet Explorer 3.0 comes with a set of built-in ActiveX controls. I’ll be using two of these, Timer and Super Label, in my application. The Timer control is an invisible control that generates an event periodically. The Super Label control displays text at various angles or positions within a boundary box. My applet will do the following with a Timer control and a Super Label control located on a web page:

With every Timer event, the application will rotate the text in the Super Label control by 5 degrees.
Two buttons will allow the user to increase and decrease the interval at which Timer events occur.
A list box will display the events processed by the applet.
The applet is named AXGlue since it “glues” together a pair of ActiveX controls. Using the Java Applet Wizard in Visual Studio, I create a new applet. It doesn’t need to be multithreaded, and it won’t support animation. After Visual Studio has built a skeleton application for AXGlue, I’m ready to begin filling in the details. (You can find the completed project in the \\ActiveVJ\chapter05\AXGlue directory on the companion disc.)