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I'm trying to create an applet that loads 52 cards, shuffles them(using random number generator), then displays the top 10 cards of the deck in two rows of five. I have the HTML file with the 52 images of the cards, but is there a way to load the images without having to load each individual image. And how do you load images from the web?

CuriousTim
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..is there a way to load the images without having to load each individual image

Put them in one huge image and slice it up at run-time. There is an example in this answer.

Search Google images for 'playing+card' and it is likely there will be 2 or more tile sets in the first page of hits.

But then, even faster is to load:

  1. Card backdrop
  2. Image or Shape of each suit symbol
  3. Image of or Font for the letters and numbers.

Then combine them at start-up to form each of the 52 cards.

It will apparently also require a common 'reverse side' for the cards.

how do you load images from the web?

By URL.

Some alternatives:

  1. Applet.getImage(URL)
  2. Toolkit.getImage(URL)
  3. Or for a synchronously loaded BufferedImage use ImageIO.read(URL)

The first two methods are asynchronous & require an ImageObserver.

Consider doing this as an application launched using Java Web Start. If you proceed with using an applet, go through the links in the applet info. page.

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Andrew Thompson
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Try this.

Image[] cards = new Image[52]

private void loadImages(){
    for (int i=0; i<cards.length; i++){
        URL imgUrl = getClass().getResource("image"+(i+1));
        cards[i] = getImage(imgUrl);
    }
}

Hope this helps

Sri Harsha Chilakapati
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