Step 1

Step 1 creates several user interface components and adds them to the applet's inherent panel. Components include a TextArea and a Button.

Use of these components is illustrated in the applet that follows.

Example Applet

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

public class step1 extends Applet{

// UI components

TextArea ta;
Button button;

  public void init ( ){
    
    ta = new TextArea ("My Text Area", 5, 40);
    button = new Button ("Button");

    setBackground (Color.white);
    setForeground (Color.red);

    add (ta);
    add (button);

  } // end init

}// end step1

Run the applet

Discussion

As can be seen in the class hierarchy, most UI components are subclasses of Component; their declaration is straight-forward. They are added to the applet's inherent panel through the add method, which is included in the Container class. Thus, messages propagate up the hierarchy from the applet to Panel to Container.

Question: in what class are the two methods that set colors found?