isn't JPanel and JFrame Applet stuff?

oh
Mah Savitch book gives me a example about those but it was always in the applet section.

//program: makes an empty window you can move around, minimize. whatever.
import javax.swing.*;

public class Example1{
public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Omnimaga."); //makes a new window with the title "Omnimaga." in memory.
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); //makes it so when you press the red X, the program exits.
frame.setSize(300,400); //300 pixels wide by 400 tall.
frame.setResizable(true); //it's resizable by default, but if you ever want to make it not-resizable, you know how.
frame.setVisible(true); //yay! it's visible!
}
}

example numero one.

//program: makes an empty window with a panel, which has a black background.
import javax.swing.*;  //for JPanel, JFrame
import java.awt.*; // for Color, and Container pane

public class Example2{
public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Omnimaga."); //makes a new window with the title "Omnimaga." in memory.
Container pane = frame.getContentPane(); //this is what organizes buttons, text boxes, panels, etc.
JPanel panel = new JPanel(); //you can draw on this! yay!
panel.setBackground(Color.BLACK); //make the background color black
pane.add(panel); //add it to the panel!
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); //makes it so when you press the red X, the program exits.
frame.setSize(300,400); //300 pixels wide by 400 tall.
frame.setResizable(true); //it's resizable by default, but if you ever want to make it not-resizable, you know how.
frame.setVisible(true); //yay! it's visible!
}
}

example nummer zwei.


3 is on its way. they're starting to get more complex.

//program: makes an empty window with a panel. oh, and the panel has a red circle in the center. yay.
import javax.swing.*;  //for JPanel, JFrame
import java.awt.*; // for Color, and Container pane
import java.awt.Graphics; //idk why, but my IDE needs this whenever i use graphics. BlueJ may not.

public class Example3{
public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Omnimaga."); //makes a new window with the title "Omnimaga." in memory.
Container pane = frame.getContentPane(); //this is what organizes buttons, text boxes, panels, etc.
MagicPanel panel = new MagicPanel(); //you can draw on this! yay!
pane.add(panel); //add it to the panel!
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); //makes it so when you press the red X, the program exits.
frame.setSize(300,400); //300 pixels wide by 400 tall.
frame.setResizable(true); //it's resizable by default, but if you ever want to make it not-resizable, you know how.
frame.setVisible(true); //yay! it's visible!
}
}

class MagicPanel extends JPanel{ //it's like a jpanel... but magic...

public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
g.setColor(Color.BLACK); //everything painted is black
g.fillRect(getX() , getY() , getWidth(), getHeight() );
g.setColor(Color.RED); //everything you paint will be red now.
g.fillOval(getWidth() / 2 ,getHeight() / 2, 50,50);  //oval upper-left X position is the panel's width / 2,
// y position is the panel's height / 2
//width is 50 pixels, and then height is 50 pixels.
}

}
numeri tres! you'll notice that the red circle isn't *completely* in the center of the panel. that's because of the edges of the window. if you're in XP, the extra height is +34 and the extra width is +4.

i don't know. i don't work with applets.

lol a smilie. nice. here's example four. it's pretty.. badly coded. everything is declared static  i wish main didn't have to be static. it's a very inelegant solution to modifier problem, but the concepts are shown.

//program: makes an empty window with a panel. oh, and the panel has a red circle in the center. yay.
import javax.swing.*;  //for JPanel, JFrame
import java.awt.*; // for Color, and Container pane
import java.awt.event.*; //needed for the key movement
import java.awt.Graphics; //idk why, but my IDE needs this whenever i use graphics. BlueJ may not.

public class Example4{
static boolean isMovingLeft = false;
static boolean isMovingRight = false;
static boolean isMovingUp = false;
static boolean isMovingDown = false;
static int x = 0, y = 0;
static Timer t; //for timed events. like every 100 milliseconds do this action
static MagicPanel panel;
public static void main(String[] args){
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Omnimaga."); //makes a new window with the title "Omnimaga." in memory.
Container pane = frame.getContentPane(); //this is what organizes buttons, text boxes, panels, etc.
panel = new MagicPanel(); //you can draw on this! yay!
InputMap i = panel.getInputMap(); //this allows you to define keystrokes the panel should recognize.
ActionMap a = panel.getActionMap(); //this allows you to transfer those keystrokes into actions.
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("LEFT"),"move left!"); //maps the pressed key "LEFT" (left arrow key) to the string "move left!"
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("RIGHT"),"move right!"); //like above..
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("UP"),"move up!");
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("DOWN"),"move down!");
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("released LEFT"),"stop moving left!"); //maps the released key "LEFT" (left arrow key) to the string "stop moving left!"
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("released RIGHT"),"stop moving right!");
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("released UP"),"stop moving up!");
i.put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("released DOWN"),"stop moving down!");
a.put("move left!",moveLeft); //maps the string in the InputMap "move left!" to the action moveLeft.
a.put("move right!",moveRight);//like above..
a.put("move up!",moveUp);
a.put("move down!",moveDown);
a.put("stop moving left!",stopMovingLeft);
a.put("stop moving right!",stopMovingRight);
a.put("stop moving up!",stopMovingUp);
a.put("stop moving down!",stopMovingDown);
panel.setFocusable(true); //allows the panel to intercept key presses.
pane.add(panel); //add it to the panel!
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); //makes it so when you press the red X, the program exits.
frame.setSize(300,400); //300 pixels wide by 400 tall.
frame.setResizable(true); //it's resizable by default, but if you ever want to make it not-resizable, you know how.
frame.setVisible(true); //yay! it's visible!
t = new Timer(1,update); //do action update every 1 millisecond
t.start(); //start the timer
while(true){
panel.repaint();
}
}

static Action update = new AbstractAction(){ //timer's action
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
panel.updateCoordinates(x,y);
if(isMovingLeft)
x--;
if(isMovingRight)
x++;
if(isMovingUp)
y--;
if(isMovingDown)
y++;
}
};

static Action moveLeft = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingLeft = true;
}
};
static Action moveRight = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingRight = true;
}
};
static Action moveUp = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingUp = true;
}
};
static Action moveDown = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingDown = true;
}
};
static Action stopMovingLeft = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingLeft = false;
}
};
static Action stopMovingRight = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingRight = false;
}
};
static Action stopMovingUp = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingUp = false;
}
};
static Action stopMovingDown = new AbstractAction(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
isMovingDown = false;
}
};

}

class MagicPanel extends JPanel{ //it's like a jpanel... but magic...
private int x,y; //where the circle would be placed

public void updateCoordinates(int xPos, int yPos){
x = xPos;
y = yPos;
}
public void paintComponent(Graphics g){
g.setColor(Color.BLACK); //everything painted is black
g.fillRect(getX() , getY() , getWidth(), getHeight() );
g.setColor(Color.RED); //everything you paint will be red now.
g.fillOval(x ,y, 50,50);
}

}


yeah it was a headache to write 

i haven't built the framework for keypresses in so long. i kept having to refer back to my game Juggernaut.

no, they aren't supposed to display. the panel has two instance objects called the InputMap and the ActionMap. the inputmap is basically a bunch of strings that each correspond to a specificy keyStroke. the actionmap reads the inputmap's strings and maps the strings onto a bunch of Action objects, which run that code whenever you press the keyStroke in the inputmap.

and yes it should, if you make the smile's x and y positions be based upon x and y variables.

yep, that should do the trick.