1) Why code an applet? If it is due to the teacher specifying it, please refer them to Why CS teachers should stop teaching Java applets. 2) Why use AWT? See this answer for many good reasons to abandon AWT using components in favor of Swing. — Andrew Thompson 1 min ago

Both answers were very helpful, your groupings with the parentheses made it click. I don't like the fact that it is overloading without me knowing about it, it seems this will lead to programmers not knowing exactly what is going on. I will make sure to change my use of string literals. — user2676680 44 secs ago

Come to think of it this question may be more appropriate for the Programmers community of Stack Exchange. — jxramos 1 min ago

Such demeaning responses. Last time I use this website, I'm sorry I'm not a full fledged programmer you have to start somewhere, and clearly this is not the website for it when I'm getting sarcastic answers by snobby programmers. Thanks though. — Winterone 1 min ago

Thank You Stanley. I could do that but I want my code little neater fso that the future programmers wont get confused.. I was playing with interfaces but not able to get the right way to do it. — user3567026 47 secs ago

Your comment of "Have fun speculating!"is a key indicator that this question wouldn't be a good fit on Programmers. It would likely be closed as "Primarily opinion based." — GlenH7 16 secs ago

This question would be better suited for programmers.stackexchange.com This site is primarily about fixing code. — Shikhar Bhardwaj 1 min ago

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's more suited to programmers.stackexchange.com — GordonM 1 min ago

@BastiM As virtual box is open source I imagine there are programmers here who know the code. The question can be generalized to "Why would a virtual machine software not recommend a certain amount of ram", VB is what I have so i dont know if it is true for all vm. Does that clarify? Im not asking how to use the software — user1938107 1 min ago

ow that is a disadvantage for programmers that wanna use facebook, I go looking for include other social media and maybe with email invitations — robbie demaegdt 2 mins ago

Related (on Programmers): programmers.stackexchange.com/q/196112/110531 — jonrsharpe 1 min ago

This would be hard even if you had programming skills. How about setting a password instead, so only trusted people can work with it? If you really need this as a VBA macro, you should hire someone who can do this. This site is a Q&A site for programmers, to learn. We are happy to help you with problems, but "I need code dictated to me" is not something we can help you with. — nvoigt 33 secs ago

@StephenC Lets keep things simple... if he does not need it.. he should not leave it open... "Good habit for new programmers"... Experienced programmers can decide otherwise ( because of some "known" factors) . — Sarvesh Kumar Singh 2 mins ago

No, to tell other programmers that's what the code is doing — RobEarl 1 min ago

Usage of global variables is evil, especially for beginner programmers (-1). — pmg 2 mins ago

Before you try to continue, take a few days and read through the standard Ruby book (amazon.com/Programming-Ruby-1-9-2-0-Programmers/dp/1937785491/…) and the latest RoR book (amazon.com/Agile-Development-Rails-Facets-Ruby/dp/1937785564/…). No offense intended but you don't have enough of the basics down to even know how to ask the question, much less how to write the program. — Michael Chaney 59 secs ago

Without pointers to pointers to pointers, we wouldn't have three-star programmers — Yakk 1 min ago

stackoverflow.com/questions/3922599/… , stackoverflow.com/questions/18188123/… , programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/58237/… — Sikorski 1 min ago

This is the correct answer. Programmers should not re-invent the wheel (unless there's a really good reason). — James Watkins 2 mins ago

It is not some "random programmers" who designed C. — Basile Starynkevitch 38 secs ago

actually this is a technical question about a code bug so it is a fit for SO, not programmers.SE. Though there's more than a few good questions about LSP on programmers, this one being about a specific PHP implementation that seems to have bugs is more specific and better for SO I'd say. — Jimmy Hoffa 2 mins ago

I'm not sure what is the question about exactly, but here are some thoughts. instanceOfB is a global variable, right? So, it is an evil that should be avoided if not strictly necessary. struct A instanceOfA; inside function body looks fine for me, though we usually move types from struct namespace to global namespace by using typedef struct idiom to reduce typing. — Drop 12 secs ago

If that's a virus, then millions of aspiring programmers are now expert black hats. — AndyG 54 secs ago

Probably belongs on programmers.stackexchange.com — glenn jackman 1 min ago

As stackoverflow has grown it's unfortunate that overmoderation has killed what are actually helpful questions. This was not an unreasonable or overly general question, and it's one many programmers would reasonable ask and want a community answer on. Classifying this as too general may be a fun exercise of moderator power, but actions like that relegate stackoverflow to answering questions related to minutae rather than questions which are actually helpful. I note that many of the most popular (and useful) questions on SO would be closed as too general by today's overzealous moderators. — tohster 1 min ago

You might check if this is on-topic on programmers.se. It is more of a whiteboard type of question than a keyboard type of question. Leaving a comment on your post doesn't solve much. You might post on Meta Stack Overflow to ask for judgement by a wider audience. If the community there decides I voted wrong I'm happy to help re-open your question. — rene 1 min ago

I was going to ask, in your opinion, should this be over on programmers.stackexchange.com instead? I've seen many similar questions here, which is why I placed it here. But perhaps we're all wrong. — CXJ 2 mins ago

For the record: This doesn't belong on Programmers.StackExchange either AFAIK. — Simon André Forsberg 20 secs ago

stackoverflow.com/questions/388242/… - This question would also be closed as too broad for the audience here, despite the fact that it has actually helped thousands of programmers and, wonderfully, as survived as a triumph of usefulness over rules. You are right that this is a meta topic, though. — tohster 2 mins ago

Apologies if the point was not obvious, but the question has over 4000 votes because people were actually allowed to answer it, and not because it was closed. If moderators had closed the question as "too broad" as soon as it was posted, it would not have 4000 votes and, more importantly, thousands of bona fide programmers would have been deprived of the very helpful answers which garnered the votes and popularity. Is the community better or worse for having the question answered? — tohster 1 min ago

@CXJ - The impression I get is that you're looking for a code backed answer for this problem. That's why I think it fits better here on SO. The relevant questions on Progs (see 1, 2, 3) are much more abstract and won't directly answer what I think is your question. — GlenH7 33 secs ago

@startoftext: That's not what I meant by copy/paste code. By copy/paste code, I mean trying to cobble together a program by copy/pasting code snippets from the Internet. Real programmers actually write code that meets their needs! — Robert Harvey ♦ 1 min ago

@WarrenP this idea was a back up idea but I ended up getting into the idea of RTTI and learning how to use it. What a good way to try it and lastly, good thing its my own code base so no need to worry bout other programmers otherwise like you said, a different approach would of been discussed initially ;) — Daniel Hobson 1 min ago

This question might be suitable for programmers.stackexchange.com. — Mike Nakis 2 mins ago

Are the images in the same directory as the HTML and classes? BTW 1) <param name="image" value="0.jpg"> <param name="image" value="1.jpg"> applet parameter names have to be unique! After all, when getParam("image") is called, do you expect it to return 0.jpg or 1.jpg? 2) Why code an applet? If it is due to the teacher specifying it, please refer them to Why CS teachers should stop teaching Java applets. — Andrew Thompson 1 min ago

@MikeNakis: Too broad for Programmers.SE. — Robert Harvey ♦ 47 secs ago