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- * *
- * CooCoo(F1.52) *
- * Java Applet *
- * Written by Mark Qian *
- * *
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-
- CooCoo is a cool web-communication machine.
- It allows its users to chat, call-to-chat, display ad,
- news, and more... The AdWare version of CooCoo is FREE!
- Shareware version is also availabel. TOP 5% at JARS.
-
- This may not be the latest version. Please get the latest
- version at CooCoo's home
-
- http://www.coolshare.com/html/app_coo.htm
-
- Detail instructions for installation are available there.
-
-
- CooCoo is DFFERENT because:
-
-
- A. Call-to-Chat - Call the person to chat
-
- CooCoo comes with a Call Center where you can "call"
- people who are not currently in CooCoo's chatroom.
- After placing a "chat call", you can switch to other
- applications (you can also icon your CooCoo. Move
- the browser to other pages? No problem! CooCoo will
- live until you shut down the browser.) and CooCoo will
- prompt you when the person you called logs in to CooCoo.
-
-
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- B. Easy Chat - for most personal pages
-
- CooCoo's chat system does not requires a program
- running in background(daemon) in the server(Most ISPs
- do not allow their users run such a background
- program). This means CooCoo can be installed
- on any personal home page where CGI and Perl
- are supported.
-
-
- C. No firewall problem
-
- CooCoo's users will not be blocked by
- firewalls since the communication is
- done with https.
-
-
- D. Easy advertising banner with sound
-
- CooCoo displays an advertisement banner in a HTML
- style. Ad images are fetched from the server periodically
- in a random or specified order. It is "easy" because
- it is not neccessary for the resource (image and sound files)
- to reside in your site. Only thing you need to provide
- is their URLs. This is great for most of personal sites
- since it make CooCoo's ad is affordable to these sites with
- limited bandwidth(MB/Day): the images and sound can be
- fetched from other's site instead of yous!
-
- Another great feature of HTML style is that gif anmation
- is supported in the ad banner.
-
- In additional, a sound file (any sound format support by
- your browser) can be easily attached to an ad image.
-
- E. Smart news
-
- CooCoo starts displaying news line by line automatically
- if there is no chat activity for a specified period.
- The news will be stoped as soon as people start chating.
- This feature can be turn off from CooCoo but users.
-
- Maintenace of these text files is easy: just place all the
- news text files in a specified directory and
- CooCoo will pick up one at a time randomly.
-
- F. Smart sleep capability
-
- Bandwidth and CPU usage are limited in
- most personal pages. To reduce their
- usage, CooCoo comes with a sleep
- function: CooCoo will sleep if there
- is no user activity after a specified
- period. That is, CooCoo will not
- update info such as chat log, news,
- ad, and so on untill users do something
- like moving their mouse.
-
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-
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- Parameters:
-
- cgibase - The URL where coocoo.cgi resides
-
- adperiod - determent the frequency of updating ad banner. Default is 9.
-
- callerperiod - determent the frequency of checking calls. Default is 50.
-
- userlistperiod - determent the frequency of updating user list. Default is 15.
-
- clearuserperiod - period to clear the user list. It is neccessary
- to clear user list because some users may be
- disconnected before they log off. CooCoo need to
- clear user list periodatically. Note: if you set
- clearuserperiod < userlistperiod
- you will clear all the login users too. So DON"T
- set clearuserperiod < userlistperiod !!
- Default is 100.
-
- roomlistperiod - Similar to userlistperiod except it is for room list.
- Default is 15.
-
- clearroomperiod - Similar to clearuserperiod except it is for room list.
- Default is 200.
-
- maxRoom - Maximum number of rooms.
-
- passwordfile - specify the file where passwords are stored. Default is
- "password".
-
- ownertips - content of tooltips on Call Site Owner button
-
- callcentertips - content of tooltips on Call Center button
-
- nonmemberbutt - label of button for non-member log on. Default is "Non-member log on".
-
- memberbutt - label of button for member log on. Default is "Member log on".
-
- memberon - show member log on button if 1. Hide the button if 0. Default is 1.
-
- nonmemberon - show non-member log on button if 1. Hide the button if 0. Default is 1.
-
- loginmsg - the message appear at the bottom of the log on screen. It can be a HTML text.
- Default is
-
- <h3>Please enter a nick name and click at a connect button.<h3>You can test member log on with following password: <br><b>guest</b>"
-
-
- Note: This message is not the one displayed initially in the lower part of CooCoo's
- screen. The initial message is displayed in coo2.htm.
-
- logintitle - the title text displayed in log in screen. Defualt is "CooCoo Chat".
-
- fgcolor - foreground color of CooCoo. It accept HTML color format
- such as "FFFFFF" for white and "000000" for black.
- Default is black.
-
- bgcolor - background color of CooCoo. Default is light gray.
-
- refreshperiod - determent the frequency of updating chat log.
- Default is 5.
-
- newsperiod - determent the frequency of posting news. Default is 50.
-
- newswait - determent how long the period from
- no chating activity to launching news.Default is 100.
-
-
- newsState - determent the initial state of the News Check Box.
- 1 - checked
- 0 - unchecked
-
- Default is 1.
-
- newson - determent if the News Check Box is accessable.
- 1 - enabled
- 0 - disabled
-
- Default is 1.
-
- Note: the check box will disappear if newDir is ignore.
-
-
- ownername - Owner's login name. CooCoo will notice
- the user with this name as owner.
- If this parameter is ignore the "Call site owner now"
- button will disappear.
-
- owneremail - Owner's email. Ignore this field if you
- don't want to have to Call Owner button.
-
- If this parameter is ignore CooCoo won't send email
- notice.
-
- waitsleep - the period CooCoo will sleep if no uesr action.
- Default is 50.
-
- newswait - determent how long the period from
- no chating activity to launching news.
- Default is 100.
-
- imageInfo - name of the file where ad info is stored
- Default is "image_info".
-
- showSleeper - CooCoo will update user list while sleeping if set to 1.
- Otherwise not update user list - this will cause sleeping
- users disappear from the user list but save some CUP time
- and bandwidth in your server.
- Default is 1.
-
-
- datadir - Name of sub directory where data files reside.
- Since some ISPs don't allow the CGI directory
- to be set to writable. So it is recommended that
- you better create a sub directory right under
- your CGI directory where coocoo.cgi resides.
- (If you set datadir to "" or ignore it, the data
- files will be written in your CGI directory).
-
-
- imagedir - a sub directory(includ the related path if
- it does not reside directly under cgibase)
- under cgibase to contain ad images and the
- file specifed by m_imageInfo
-
- Ignore it if you don't want ad.
-
- newsdir - a sub directory(includ the related path if
- it does not reside directly under cgibase)
- under cgibase to contain text files which
- contains news text.
-
- Ignore it if you don't want news.
-
- sleepupmax - the period which CooCoo will update screen
- right after it is waken up if it sleep longer
- than sleepupmax.
- Default is 300.
-
- soundstate - Sound for ad if 1 and sound for chat if 2.
- No sound if 0.
- Default is 2.
-
- adwidth - width of ad banner.
- Default is 550.
-
- adheight - height of ad banner.
- Default is 300.
-
-
- maxchatline - maximum number of line in chat log file.
- if the nummber of line in chat log file
- exceeds maxchatline, CooCoo will clear
- chat log file.
- Default is 100.
-
-
- button1 - Specify the first "customized chat button"
-
- button2 - Specify the 2nd "customized chat button"
-
- ...
-
- buttonn - Specify the Nnd "customized chat button"
-
- More details about "customized chat button":
-
- CooCoo allow its own customize five buttons
- in "Click here" section under the chat window.
-
- There are three fields in value of button1 through
- buttonN separated by delimitor "^#^":
-
- 1). button label 2). text to be post to chat log
- 3). sound when post
-
- Example:
-
- <param name=button1 value="Hello^#^Hello, folks!^#^sound/SOUND22.AU">
-
- The "customized chat button" above has "Hello" as its button label,
- "Hello, folks!" as posted test, and "sound/SOUND22.AU" as posted sound.
-
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-
-
- Detail Instructions for installation:
-
- 1).
- Download coocoo.zip
-
- 2). Unzip coocoo.zip in a temperary directory, say c:\tmp_coo,
- in your local machine.
-
- At this time, you should have following files in c:\tmp_coo
-
- sound25.au
- sound22.au
- laugh.au
- FILE_ID.DIZ
- Readme.txt
- coo2.htm
- coo.htm
- coo1.htm
- coocoo.cgi
- coocoo.class
- app_coo.htm
- zzz*.class (total 9 files with names started with "zzz")
-
-
-
- 3). Upload all the class, au files and app_coo.htm above to the
- html diretory in you server, say my-html.
-
- Note: all the class and au files have to be uploaded with binary mode
- while htm file should be uploaded with ASCII mode.
-
- so far, you have following directory and files:
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- my-html
- my-html/sound22.au
- my-html/sound25.au
- my-html/laugh.au
- my-html/app_coo.htm
- my-html/coocoo.class
- my-html/zzz*.class (total 9 files with names started with "zzz")
-
-
-
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- 4). Make sure CGI and Perl are enabled at the directory where
- parameter "cgibase" points to, say my-cgi.
- And make sure my-cgi is readable and executable (750)
- Upload coocoo.cgi to my-cgi and set its access attribute
- to readable and executable(750).
-
- so far, you have following directory and files:
-
- my-html
- my-html/sound22.au
- my-html/sound25.au
- my-html/laugh.au
- my-html/app_coo.htm
- my-html/coocoo.class
- my-html/zzz*.class (total 9 files with names started with "zzz")
-
- my-cgi
- my-cgi/coocoo.cgi
-
-
- 5). Creat a sub directory right under my-cgi with value of
- datadir above as its name such as "data".
- Set the access attributes of "data"
- to readable, writable, and executable (770).
-
- VERY IMPORTANT: You have to set this directory to
- readable, writable, and executable (770).
-
-
- so far, you have following directory and files:
-
-
- my-html
- my-html/sound22.au
- my-html/sound25.au
- my-html/laugh.au
- my-html/app_coo.htm
- my-html/coocoo.class
- my-html/zzz*.class (total 9 files with names started with "zzz")
-
- my-cgi
- my-cgi/coocoo.cgi
- my-cgi/data
-
- 6). Creat a sub directory right under "data" with value of
- imagedir above as its name such as "images"
- and set it to readable and executable(750).
-
-
- so far, you have following directory and files:
-
-
- my-html
- my-html/sound22.au
- my-html/sound25.au
- my-html/laugh.au
- my-html/app_coo.htm
- my-html/coocoo.class
- my-html/zzz*.class (total 9 files with names started with "zzz")
-
- my-cgi
- my-cgi/coocoo.cgi
- my-cgi/data
- my-cgi/data/images
-
-
-
- 8). Create a file with value of imageinfo above as its
- name such as "image_info". Each line of this file has
- three fields divided by delimitor "^#^":
-
- 1). URL of the image
- 2). URL of the link to be opened when clicking at the image
- 3). URL of the sound
-
- Example of a single line in the file:
-
- http://www.coolshare.comhtml/image/image1.gif^#^http://www.coolshare.com^#^http://www.coolshare.com/sound/au1.au
-
- will display image with url http://www.coolshare.comhtml/image/image1.gif
- sound with url http://www.coolshare.com/sound/au1.au
- and open http://www.coolshare.com/ when the image is clicked
-
- You also need to set this file to readable(740).
-
- so far, you have following directory and files:
-
-
- my-html
- my-html/sound22.au
- my-html/sound25.au
- my-html/laugh.au
- my-html/app_coo.htm
- my-html/coocoo.class
- my-html/zzz*.class (total 9 files with names started with "zzz")
-
- my-cgi
- my-cgi/coocoo.cgi
- my-cgi/data
- my-cgi/data/images
- my-cgi/data/images/image_info
-
- 9). Creat a sub directory right under "data" with value of
- newsdir above as its name such as "news"
- and set it to readable and executable(750).
-
- Copy all the files (such as new1, new2, ... newX)
- contains news text into this directory, "news", and
- set them readable(740).
-
-
- so far, you have following directory and files:
-
-
- my-html
- my-html/sound22.au
- my-html/sound25.au
- my-html/laugh.au
- my-html/app_coo.htm
- my-html/coocoo.class
- my-html/zzz*.class (total 9 files with names started with "zzz")
-
- my-cgi
- my-cgi/coocoo.cgi
- my-cgi/data
- my-cgi/data/images
- my-cgi/data/news
- my-cgi/data/news/new1
- my-cgi/data/news/new2
- ...
- my-cgi/data/news/newX
-
-
-
- 10). Modify app_coo.htm:
-
- In the <SCRIPT> section at top of app_coo.htm, there is a Javascript
- function
-
- function OpenCooCoo() {
- Coo=window.open("http://www.coolshare.com/html/coo.htm","CooCoo", "width=560,height=425");
- }
-
- Set the first parameter to the complete URL of coo.htm.
- In our sample, it is http://.../my-html/coo.htm.
-
-
- 11). Modify coo1.htm:
-
- set the parameter, cgibase, to http://.../my-cgi
-
- Note: the value of cgibase has to be a complete URL.
-
- 12). If you like to provide member password logon, you
- need to create a file named password under data directory
- with following content
-
- yourpassword^#^anonymous
- ownerpassword^#^ownername
-
- where yourpassword is the password for all members and
- ownerpassword is the password for owner.
-
- The password for owner is neccessary if you like to log on
- as an owner.
-
-
- The memer logon of CooCoo in this version only support a
- single password for all members.
-
-
-
- 13). Test CooCoo:
-
- Browse app_coo.htm to test it.
-
- You may want to make sure coocoo.cgi work fine and environment setup fine by
- browsing following url
-
- http://www.your-site.com/your-cgi-dir/coocoo.cgi?action=test&datadir=data
-
- where
-
- http://www.your-site.com/your-cgi-dir/ is the url of directory where coocoo.cgi resides
- data is value of coocoo's parameter in Applet tag (note: don't use slash)
-
-
-
-
- If you get OK that means the environment in server side is OK.
- Otherwise, you will get error messages and instructions to fix.
-
-
-
- 14). A list of errors:
-
- - If you get a message box pop up with "Document contains no data" or get
- "java.io.IOException: Document contains no data" in your java console,
- it may means that you didn't set coocoo.cgi to executable.
- You may want to execute command
-
- chmod 755 coocoo.cgi
-
- to make it executable in yout UNIX shell.
-
-
- - If you get a message box pop up with "cant open File in create file: ..." or get
- "List Item:cant open file6: ..." in your java console,
- it may means that the directory that datadir specifies is not writable
- You may want to execute command
-
- chmod 770 data
-
- to make it writable in yout UNIX shell.
-
-
-
-
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- Contact Mark Qian(ok@coolshare.com) if you get any problem.
-
- If you are not confortable with those buttons
- and news in CooCoo with Mark's info
- you may want to get a registered shareware version.
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