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How can I change the colors in an applet?

Things like background color (and font size, color, etc.) are either set by parameter variables or hard-coded.

If they are set by the parameters, there will be <PARAM> tags inside the <APPLET></APPLET> tags that look something like:

<APPLET CODE="myApplet.class">
    <PARAM fontcolor="FFFFCC">
    <PARAM bgcolor="CCCCCC">
</APPLET>

Now the names of the variables are determined by the programmer, and they may be something cryptic, like "fc" and "bgc". Look at the HTML that displays the applet, and look at the readme files or any other documentation, and see if there is any mention of parameter tags that can be used to change the background. If you don't (and most of the time you won't) then the values are hard-coded.

If they are hard-coded, you would need access to the .java files that contain the actual Java code. If you have the file(s), you can probably find where the colors are set. You can then change the numbers and recompile with a Java compiler. You can get a free compiler from java.sun.com

If you don't have access to the source code, however, you're out of luck.

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