You can display a short message on the status bar of the window using the showstatus() method. Consider the following applet:
//Status.java
public class Status extends java.applet.Applet
{
public void paint(java.awt.Graphics g)
{
setBackground(java.awt.Color.gray);
g.drawString(“This is in the applet window”, 20, 30);
showStatus(“This is shown in the status bar”);
}
}
Now, create an HTML document containing an <appiet> tag as follows:
<applet code=”status” width=”300” height=”50”>
</applet>
Alternatively, you can embed in the file Status.java as explained previously. Now run appletviewer specifying the file name containing the applet as an argument. A sample result is shown in Figure 16.13:
Source: Uttam Kumar Roy (2015), Advanced Java programming, Oxford University Press.