Running and debugging applets with the Applet Viewer (AIX, Linux, and Windows only)

Use the following commands to run and debug an applet with the Applet Viewer.

Procedure

To run an applet with the Applet Viewer, enter the following command: appletviewer <name>, where <name> is one of the following options:
- The file name of an HTML file that calls an applet
- The URL of a web page that calls an applet
For example, to start the Applet Viewer on an HTML file that calls an applet:
On AIX® and Linux® systems, type at a shell prompt:
```
appletviewer $HOME/<filename>.html
```
where filename is the name of the HTML file.
On Windows systems, type at a shell or command prompt:
```
appletviewer <demo>\GraphLayout\example1.html
```
where <demo> is the full path into which you extracted the compressed demo package.
To start the Applet Viewer on a web page, type at a shell or command prompt:
```
appletviewer http://mywebpage.com/demo/applets/MyApplet/example1.html
```
The Applet Viewer does not recognize the charset option of the <META> tag. If the file that the Applet Viewer loads is not encoded as the system default, an I/O exception might occur. To avoid the exception, use the -encoding option when you run appletviewer. For example:
```
appletviewer -encoding JISAutoDetect sample.html
```
To debug an applet with the Applet Viewer, use the debug parameter with the appletviewer command.
For example:
```
>
cd demo\applets\TicTacToe
..\..\..\bin\appletviewer -debug example1.html
```