Look into the source for the demo. You will find the text phrases, separated by | symbol. The applet automatically increases the font size to fit text in the applet window height. (but do not decrease it if system default font height is more than the window height) Default TEXTCOLOR is black, and if you do not specify a BGCOLOR the applet will hide it on background as a chameleon does. There is no default TEXT for the applet.
Applet example:
<APPLET CODEBASE=./
CODE=rowshift.class
WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=40>
<PARAM NAME="TEXT" VALUE="Solid Background DEMO.|HEIGHT=40|text 3|text 4"> <PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR" VALUE="0000FF"> <PARAM NAME="TEXTCOLOR" VALUE="00FFFF"> </APPLET> </P>