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- * CooScale(F1.10) *
- * Java Bean *
- * Written by Mark Qian *
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-
- CooScale is a cool 3D-look multimedia progress bar.
-
- Why:
-
- 1). it supports customizable sound and animation with a variety of modes.
- 2). it prvides tooltips. You can show your advertisements, descriptions, and instructions
- according to progress.(To see this feature, just place your mouse cursor on the bean
- above to watch it display different content for different percentages).
- 3). it has better compitability. It can be used with both IE(4.x) and Netscape (4.x).
-
- This may not be the latest version, please visit
-
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/bean_cs.htm
-
- to get the latest version.
-
-
- Note: if you browse test.htm or test_cs.htm LOCALLY, you won't be able to
- see any anmition and hear any sound since the default
- URLs of the image files and audio file are set to somewhere else.
- Be sure that you try them ONLINE.
-
- Properties:
-
- textColor - percentage text color
- barForeground - foreground color of progress bar(the part done)
- barBackground - background color of progress bar(the rest)
- beanBackground - background color of the bean
- tipsForeground - foreground color of tooltips
- tipsBackground - background color of tooltips
- displayText - a boolean value to determent if display the percentage text
- percent - value of done
- bevel - bevel of the 3D bar
- outerTLShadowColor - TopLeft corner color of bar border
- outerBRShadowColor - BottomRight corner color of bar border
- innerTLShadowColor - TopLeft corner color of bar
- innerBRShadowColor - BottomRight corner color of bar
- tipsX - tooltips x coordinate
- tipsY - tooltips y coordinate
- tipsWidth - tooltips width
- tipsHeight - tooltips height
- buttonLabel - label of the button. You can remove the button by seting this field to nothing
- tipsText - tooltips content. You can turn the tooltips off by placing nothing in this field.
- soundURL - sound file's complete URL. You can disable sound by placing nothing in this field.
- firstImageFileURL - first animation image file's complete URL. You can disable animation by
- placing nothing in this field.
- numImage - number of animation image files. You can disable animation by seting this field to 0.
- soundMode - sound mode: 0 play sound when progressing; 1 play sound when mouse enter CooScale
- soundPlayStyle - 0 play once; 1 loop
- animationSpeed - animation interval in ms
- selfTest - a boolean var. CooScale will increase it percentage when mouse enter it if set to true
- topTips - tooltips will be keep on the top most when set to true
- autoTipsHeight - CooScale will handle measuring tooltips's height if this is set to true
- resetAfterCancel - the percentage will be set to 0 when cancel if this field is set to true
- resetAfterFull - the percentage will be set to 0 when percentage reaches 100% if this field is set to true
- toCancel - seting this field to true will have to the effect as clicking at the cancel button. This property
- offer you a way to cancel the progress by other beans. You can also call public
- method, cancelAll(), from you codes to do the samething.
-
-
- <h3>Registered Action Events and Programming issues:</h3>
-
- actionPerFormed - this event is fired when Cancel button is clicked or
- process is done (100%).
- To interact with CooScole, you need to connect its listeners
- to the source, CooScale.
-
- You can get the resulting percentage(as a String) from
- ActionEvent's last field, command, by calling
- getActionCommand. For example, following System.err.println statement
- will print the resulting percentage in Java console when the cancel
- button is clicked or when process is reached 100%
-
- void cooscale1_actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)
- {
- System.err.println("Resulting percentage = " + event.getActionCommand());
- ...
- }
-
- There are several sample applets with source codes are available
-
- 1). Package One - a simple Netscape compitable applet
- This is a very simple hand-written applet showing you how to use Cooscale in an applet.
-
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/caller_cs.java - hand-written applet source file.
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/cooscale.mk - makefile to build jar
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/caller_cs.bat - a batch file which you can use to build jar file in a DOS environment.
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/test_cs.htm - a html file to run the applet
-
- 2). Package Two - a timer-driven Cooscale
- This is an applet built with Visual Cafe (V1.1) showing you how to use
- Cooscale with other beans in an applet.
-
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/bean_cs.java - the applet source file.
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/cootimer.java - a timer bean which fires ActionEvent periodically to increase CooScale's percentage.
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/bean_cs.htm - a html file to run the applet
-
- 3). Package Three - a timer-driven Cooscale in popup style
- This is an applet built with Visual Cafe (V1.1) showing you how to popup
- CooScale.
-
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/bean_cs.java - the applet source file.
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/Dialog1.java - the dialog source file.
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/src/cootimer.java - a timer bean which fires ActionEvent periodically to increase CooScale's percentage.
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/bean_cs.htm - a html file to run the applet
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-
-
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- Other Public Methods
-
- setApplet(Applet applet) - this method has to be called from CooScale's parent so
- that it can provide animation and sound. The method should
- be called right before CooScale is shown or started.
-
- closeAll(void) - this method has to be called in parent's stop method so that the parent
- stop CooScale's sound playing and animation.
-
-
- Installation Instructions:
-
-
- 0). Download CooScale at
-
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/bean_cs.htm
-
- 1). Unzip cooscale.zip or bean_cs.zip to, say c:\my_bean
- and run setup.bat, you will get following files
-
- c:\my_bean\cooscale.jar
- c:\my_bean\cooscale1.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale16.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale2.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale3.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale32.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale4.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale5.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale6.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale7.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale8.gif
- c:\my_bean\file_id.diz
- c:\my_bean\readme.txt
- c:\my_bean\setup.bat
- c:\my_bean\sound25.au
- c:\my_bean\test.htm
- c:\my_bean\test.jar
- c:\my_bean\test.java
- c:\my_bean\test_cs.htm
-
-
- Note: be sure that you run setup.bat to rename files.
-
-
- 2). Upload files on to your server, say http://www.mysite.com/
- You need to upload following files to your server
-
- c:\my_bean\cooscale.jar
- c:\my_bean\cooscale1.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale16.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale2.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale3.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale32.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale4.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale5.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale6.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale7.gif
- c:\my_bean\cooscale8.gif
- c:\my_bean\sound25.au
- c:\my_bean\test.htm
- c:\my_bean\test.jar
- c:\my_bean\test_cs.htm
-
-
- There are two things to try now.
- If you like to see the running bean following Part I
- Otherwise, ignore Part I.
-
- Part I: Try the one package with this package
- *******
-
- a). Browse test_cs.htm with either IE 4.x or Netscape 4.x. Or
-
- b). Browse test.htm with IE 4.x. Test.htm won't work with
- Netscape since it was built with Visual Cafe but Netscape
- does not support some classes files used to build Cooscale's
- caller.
-
- Later in this page(see Park II below), you will see step-by-step instructions
- to build test.jar which is used by test.htm.
-
-
- Part II: Install it in your applet or application
- *******
-
-
- 3). Integrate it in to an applet or application.
-
- Let's use Visual Cafe (V1.1) as example.
-
- Instructions to insert Cooscale to an applet with Visual Cafe:
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- A). Open Visual Cafe and select File | New Project from the pull-down menu.
- Then select Basic Applet from New Project dialog.
-
- B). Rename your new project and applet name, say test as project name and
- test as applet name too, and then save it at c:\my_test. Save the project.
-
- C). Selete Insert | Component into Library... from menu. Then select
- cooscale.jar that you unzipped at step 1). That is, c:\my_bean\cooscale.jar
-
- D). Selete Insert | Component from menu. Then select
- cooscale from component list and add it to the project.
- Change following properties
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- FirstImageFileURL - change it to http://www.mysite.com/cooscale1.gif
- SoundURL - change it to http://www.mysite.com/sound25.au
-
- You have to change these properties in order to have sound and animation
- since an applet can not fetch any resource from any places other than where
- it comes from.
-
- You need to set property "selfTest" to true in the property list so that
- you can simulate a progress by placing mouse cursor on the bean.
-
- E). Right mouse click at test in the project dialog and select Edit Source
- (or click at test in the dialog and select Object | Edit Source from menu).
- Then add following statement to init()
-
- cooscale1.setApplet(this);
-
- right after
-
- //{{INIT_CONTROLS
- ....
- //}}
-
- You will get something like
-
- ...
- //{{INIT_CONTROLS
- setLayout(null);
- setSize(289,127);
- try {
- ClassLoader cl = Class.forName("cooscale").getClassLoader();
- cooscale1 = (cooscale) java.beans.Beans.instantiate(cl, "cooscale");
- cooscale1.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER,5,5));
- cooscale1.setBounds(36,36,216,36);
- add(cooscale1);
- cooscale1.start();
- } catch (Exception e) { }
- //}}
-
- cooscale1.setApplet(this); //<<<<<<<< ADD IT HERE !!!!!
-
- ...
-
- in init().
-
- <b>Note</b>: you better place cooscale1.setApplet(this) outside of
-
- //{{INIT_CONTROLS
- ....
- //}}
-
- Otherwise, your addition will be overwritten whenever a change is made
- in IDE.
-
- E). Add following method to the applet
-
-
- public void stop()
- {
- cooscale1.cancelAll();
- }
-
- This will tell the bean to stop sound and animation when the
- parent applet stops.
-
-
- F). Compile the project and try it locally. If it work, select
- Project | JAR... from menu and click at More>>> button.
- Then, click at test.class and check Bean radio button at the
- bottom of the dialog. Click at OK to generate test.jar.
- Note: in Visual Cafe V1.1, please don't check any other
- class as Bean - test.class is the only one you need to mark
- as a bean.
-
- G). Try it online. Create a html document file, say test.htm, containing content
- like
-
- <APPLET Archive="test.jar" CODE="test.class" WIDTH=240 HEIGHT=50></APPLET>
-
- Upload test.jar and test.htm to http://www.mysite.com and browse
-
- http://www.mysite.com/test.htm
-
- with IE 4.x.
-
- If you like to try something which can be used in both IE and Netscape,
- you need to build a simple applet that call CooScale since applets generated by Visual Cafe (V1.1)
- contain some classes which are not supported by Netscape (V4.x).
- You can download another package
-
-
- ftp://ftp.coolshare.com/adware/cooscal2.zip
-
-
- Following the instructions in its readme.txt to build your jar file.
- With this package, you will be able to build your own test_cs.jar
- packed in this package.
-
- 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.
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