***************************************************************** * * * CooWild(1.10) * * Java Applet * * Written by Mark Qian * * * ***************************************************************** CooWild is a live menu system(java applet) where waterfowl fly over rivers, lakes, oceans... under sunset...in Spring...Winter... Each fly object represents one or more web objects (pages). Features include: - each object represent links with tooltips description. The correspending URL is opened when clicked. - Description about links can be popped up as tooltips periodically or when mouse cursor is moved on the object. - Object and background images can be replaced with your own images. This is an Adware version which is FREE. This may NOT be the latest version. Please go http://www.coolshare.com to get the latest version and more Cool and FREE stuff. A major difference between an Adware version and a registered shareware version is that an ad link will randomly replace your links so that visitors can jump to author's site is included. The registered shareware version is also available at http://www.coolshare.com System requirements: ******************** - A browser which support JDK1.1.5 Arguments: ********* cw_tipsPeriod - period of tooltips stay on screen. Default is 15. cw_objSpeed - speed of fly objects. Minimum is 1 and maximum is 9. Default is 4. cw_randomBg - switch bg randomly if 1. Default is 1. cw_object1...cw_objectN - urls of fly objects. Parameter cw_object1...cw_objectN will be combined into a single string. Info for each object is contained in a section. Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each section, there are subsections: each sebsection contains an url for a scene of the object. Subsections are divided with delimitor "|". cw_link1...cw_linkN - urls of waterfowl. Parameter cw_link1...cw_linkN will be combined into a single string. Info for each link is contained in a section. Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each section, there are two subsections: the first one is the url of the link and the other is the description of the link. Subsections are divided with delimitor "|". cw_bg1...cw_bgN - urls of waterfowl. Parameter cw_bg1...cw_bgN will be combined into a single string. Info for each bg image is contained in a section. Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each section, there are two subsections: the first one is the reflect range and the other is the url of the bg image. Subsections are divided with delimitor "|". Reflect Range is a number between -100 and 100. Here is some values and their meanings: 0 - take the entire bg image as reflection image 50 - take TOP 50% of bg image as reflection image -50 - take BOTTOM 50% of bg image as reflection image cw_sound1...cw_soundN - urls of waterfowl. Parameter cw_sound1...cw_soundN will be combined into a single string. Info for each sound url is contained in a section. Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each section, there are subsections: each sebsection contains an url of a sound. Subsections are divided with delimitor "|". cw_target - Similar to the open mode in HTML, it can be specified as "_blank", "_self", and so on. Default is "_blank". cw_linkPeriod - Links attached to each objec will be switched so that a single object can show more than one links. Set it to -1 if you don't want to attach multiple links to a single object. Default is 300. cw_showLinkAsSwitch - link description will be shown when link is switched if set to 1. Set it to 0 if you don't like link description to be displayed when link is switched. Default is 1. cw_soundPeriod - period of sound. Default is 50. cw_bgPeriod - period of bg switch. Default is 200. cw_numObj - number of fly object. It can be a positive number or a negative number. A positive number means EXACTLY that many object will be generated while a negative number means that the number of object will be generated randomly and the maximum is (- cw_numOnj). Default is -5. cw_tips - image file for tooltips. You can get a transparent tips background if you ignore this parameter. cw_screenW - widht of popup screen. Set it to -1 if you want full screen. Default is 630. cw_screenH - height of popup screen. Set it to -1 if you want full screen. Default is 420. cw_keyExit - if 1, close popup window when key is pressed. Default is 0. cw_mouseClickExit - if 1, close popup window when clicking. Default is 0. It is not available in an Adware version. cw_mouseMoveExit - if 1, close popup window when moving mouse. Default is 0. It is not available in an Adware version. cw_popup - if 1, CooWild will be contain in a popup window Default is 0. cw_showExit - if 1, a exit button will be placed in the popup window Default is 1. cw_showOpen - if 1, a open button will be placed applet areat in browser Default is 0. cw_autoOpen - if 1, a popup window containing CooWild will be opened right after applet is loaded. Default is 0. cw_tipsFg - font color of tips. Default is "000000". cw_flyStylePeriod - period of fly style switching. Default is 200. Installation instructions: ************************* 0). Download CooWild at http://www.coolshare.com/html/app_cw.htm 1). Unzip cootank.zip to, say c:\test you will get following files c:\test\coowild.jar c:\test\bird1.au c:\test\bird2.au c:\test\bird12.gif c:\test\bird13.gif c:\test\bird14.gif c:\test\bird15.gif c:\test\bird16.gif c:\test\bird17.gif c:\test\bird11.gif c:\test\tips.gif c:\test\view1.gif c:\test\view2.gif c:\test\view3.gif c:\test\view4.gif c:\test\view5.gif c:\test\test_cw.htm c:\test\Readme.txt c:\test\file_id.diz 2). Try it off-line. Just open test_cw.htm with a browser. 3). Upload files on to your server, say http://www.mysite.com/ You need to upload following files to your server and you will get them as following http://www.mysite.com/coowild.jar http://www.mysite.com/bird1.au http://www.mysite.com/bird2.au http://www.mysite.com/bird12.gif http://www.mysite.com/bird13.gif http://www.mysite.com/bird14.gif http://www.mysite.com/bird15.gif http://www.mysite.com/bird16.gif http://www.mysite.com/bird17.gif http://www.mysite.com/bird11.gif http://www.mysite.com/tips.gif http://www.mysite.com/view1.gif http://www.mysite.com/view2.gif http://www.mysite.com/view3.gif http://www.mysite.com/view4.gif http://www.mysite.com/view5.gif http://www.mysite.com/test_cw.htm 4). Try it online. Browse http://www.mysite.com/test_cw.htm with IE 4.x or upgrated Netscape. Note: a regular Netscape browser downloaded from Netscape won't work. You need to upgrate it to support JDK1.1. Go http://developer.netscape.com/software/jdk/download.html to upgrate it. Or simply switch to IE at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/ For more info, contact the author, Mark Qian, at ok@coolshare.com or visit http://www.coolshare.com to get more FREE Java stuff and cool screen savers.