21. Multimedia: Applets and Applications

The wheel that squeaks the loudest ... gets the grease.

—John Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw)

We’ll use a signal I have tried and found far-reaching and easy to yell. Waa-hoo!

—Zane Grey

There is a natural hootchykootchy motion to a goldfish.

—Walt Disney

Between the motion and the act falls the shadow.

—Thomas Stearns Eliot

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn:

  • How to get, display and scale images.

  • How to create animations from sequences of images.

  • How to create image maps.

  • How to get, play, loop and stop sounds, using an AudioClip.

  • How to play video using interface Player.

Outline

21.1 Introduction ...

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