I have an applet class I'm using as a user interface form which adds
labels, textboxes etc, validates the input and handles IO exceptions.

It works fine until I try adding the  IO exceptions.

public class MyTestInterface extends Applet implements ActionListener {

 // All labels etc are declared here
   

 public void init()    {
       
 //  lables etc. added
 
}

 
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {

       
// Validation and events here
 
        }
   
   }
     
}

So I'm not sure where to put this:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {

..

}

I'm also trying to convert the input Strings into integers with:
stringX = br.readLine();
variableX = Integer.valueOf(myString).intValue();

But I can't because the main class is causing errors.