Chat parameters

This applet allows your visitors to chat. It displays a button, when you click this button the chat window appears. You have to choose a nickname to connect to the chat. Then you chat with the other visitors. There are a few commands such as "/beep nick" which beeps nick's computer, "/priv nick" which sends a private message to nick or "/topic topic" which changes the title of the frame to topic... Launch the applet and type /help for commands help.
If you are a registered user you can email us and ask for the sources of the applet and the server.
How does this applet work ? When you enter the chat and choose a nick the applet connects to the chat server running on your web host machine. This server is a small Java program so it can run on any platform. The server communicates with all the chat applets.
Important note: As you can see you need to have an access to the computer hosting the web server so that you can make the server running.

How to launch the server ?
- All platforms: you need a Java Runtime Environment to run a Java program: JDK1.1 or higher, JRE 1.1 or higher, J2SDK, J2SE, J2EE ... If you don't have such a tool then you can download one (J2SDK for instance) at http://www.java.sun.com.
Open a command window, change directory to the directory containing the server classes (f you have installed Easy Applet Builder on Windows, default is "C:\program files\Taijisoftware\Easy Applet Builder\samples\Chat\server", if you have installed Taiji Aplet Pack then go the "Chat\server").
Launch the server : java FriendsServer
The default port number is 5554, that is to say the server is listenning on this port. You can set another port by using : java FriendsServer portnumber. If you change the server port you have to change also the applet port parameter.
- Windows 98/ME/NT/2000: You can use the Java runtime environment of Windows. Proceed as described above, but type :
jview FriendsServer
or : jview FriendsServer portnumber to set the port yourself.

How to stop the server ?
Kill it with :
- Control+C keys in the command window
- The windows task manager
- A kill -x command
...

Note: Once the server is stopped (after a kill or machine reboot) you need to start it again. If no server is running and if a visitor try to connect the chat then he/she will see a message : "can't connect to..."

Name	Description	Default	Status
text	the text of the button	"Enter"	required
button_color	the button color	usual button color	required
button_width	the button width	applet width	required
button_height	the button height	applet height	required
background_color	the background color	usual applet grey	required
port	the server port number	5554	optional
frame_title	the caption of the chat frame. If the topic command is enabled, this title will be replaced by the current topic.	"Chat room"	required
allow_beep	allow the /beep command (0: do not allow, 1: allow)	1	required
allow_priv	allow the /priv command (0: do not allow, 1: allow)	1	required
allow_whois	allow the /whois command (0: do not allow, 1: allow)	1	required
allow_topic	allow the /topic command (0: do not allow, 1: allow)	1	required
display_time	display time stamps (0: display, 1: do not display)	1	required
start_msg	this message is displayed in the chat window when the applet starts	-	optional
registration_code	the registration code	-	required

Special notes

* The background color format is hexadecimal format like this : blue is "#0000ff"", red is "#ff0000" ... If you want that the background color is the same as the one of the page, look at the html source file and find the balise : <body bgcolor="#00FFFF"> then copy the value, here it's "#00ffff". Use the "HexColor" applet to convert RGB color to hexadecimal color.