HTML Parameters for java

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Hello, I'm a newbie and I've spent far too long trying to work out why this parameter thing doesn't work for me.... It returns a null value, not very nice of it really.

my code:


import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class GridExample extends Applet
{
public Graphics g;
Image pic1, pic2, pic3;
String CardText;

public void init()
{
pic1=getImage(getCodeBase(),"fishes.jpg");
pic2=getImage(getCodeBase(),"haben.jpg");
pic3=getImage(getCodeBase(),"avoir.jpg");
CardText=getParameter("word1");

}

public GridExample()
{
this.setLayout(new GridLayout(5,9, 0, 0));
for (int counter=0; counter<45; counter++)
{
this.add(new Button(CardText + counter));
}

}

public Insets getInsets()
{
return new Insets(0, 0, 25, 0);

}

public void paint (Graphics gr)
{
g=gr;


g.drawImage(pic1,0,0,this);


}

}

my html (obvious html head and body tags left out 'cos the system wanted to go and execute the code!)


(pointy bracket open) APPLET CODE="GridExample" WIDTH=1000 HEIGHT=540(pointy bracket close)
(pointy bracket open)PARAM NAME="word1" VALUE="machen"(pointy bracket close)
(pointy bracket open)/APPLET(pointy bracket close)


It doesn't give me any error message in jconsole, but rather than have machen and the numbers on my cards I get "null" why? where have I gone wrong?

And no it doesn't actually do anything yet, my code, I'm a newbie and just going at it one step at a time.