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Unable to set JApplet Background Color
public class QuoteApplet extends JApplet
{

    public void paint (Graphics appPage)
    {
        setBackground(Color.YELLOW);

        appPage.drawRect(65,55,255,100);
        //page.drawRect(60,80,225,30);
        //page.drawOval(75,65, 20, 20);
        appPage.drawLine(30,30,30,100);
        appPage.drawLine(40,30,40,100);
        appPage.drawLine(55,45,15,85);

        appPage.drawString("There once lived a man named Oedipus Rex.", 70, 70);
        appPage.drawString("You may have heard about his odd complex.", 70, 90);
        appPage.drawString("His name appears in Freud's index,", 70, 110);
        appPage.drawString("'cause he loved his mother.", 70, 130);
        appPage.drawString("-Tom Lehrer", 200, 150);
    }
}