***************************************************************** * * * CooCoo(F1.22) * * Java Applet * * Written by Mark Qian * * * ***************************************************************** 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. 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. 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.


Parameters:

cgibase - The URL where coocoo.cgi resides adperiod - determent the frequency of updating ad banner callerperiod - determent the frequency of checking calls userperiod - determent the frequency of updating user list refreshperiod - determent the frequency of updating chat log newsperiod - determent the frequency of posting news newswait - determent how long the period from no chating activity to launching news. imageInfo - name of the file where ad info is stored 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 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. 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.

Detail Instructions for installation

: 1). Download coocoo.zip 2). Unzip coocoo.zip in a temperary directory, say c:\tmp_coo, in your local machine. 3). Run setup.bat to rename class files. Because PKUNZIP will extract the class file, coocoo.class, to coocoo.cla, you have to RENAME the class file to coocoo.class if you prefer to rename them menually. Similarly, rename *.cla to *.class At this time, you should have following files in c:\tmp_coo common.class coocoo.class cooabout.class coocall.class cooccoo.class coomsg.class coonew.class coopass.class coowatch.class sound22.au sound25.au laugh.au readme.txt app_coo.htm coocoo.cgi 4). 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: my-html my-html/common.class my-html/coocoo.class my-html/cooabout.class my-html/coocall.class my-html/cooccoo.class my-html/coomsg.class my-html/coonew.class my-html/coopass.class my-html/coowatch.class my-html/sound22.au my-html/sound25.au my-html/laugh.au my-html/app_coo.htm 5). 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/common.class my-html/coocoo.class my-html/cooabout.class my-html/coocall.class my-html/cooccoo.class my-html/coomsg.class my-html/coonew.class my-html/coopass.class my-html/coowatch.class my-html/sound22.au my-html/sound25.au my-html/laugh.au my-html/app_coo.htm my-cgi my-cgi/coocoo.cgi 6). 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/common.class my-html/coocoo.class my-html/cooabout.class my-html/coocall.class my-html/cooccoo.class my-html/coomsg.class my-html/coonew.class my-html/coopass.class my-html/coowatch.class my-html/sound22.au my-html/sound25.au my-html/laugh.au my-html/app_coo.htm my-cgi my-cgi/coocoo.cgi my-cgi/data 7). 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/common.class my-html/coocoo.class my-html/cooabout.class my-html/coocall.class my-html/cooccoo.class my-html/coomsg.class my-html/coonew.class my-html/coopass.class my-html/coowatch.class my-html/sound22.au my-html/sound25.au my-html/laugh.au my-html/app_coo.htm my-cgi my-cgi/coocoo.cgi my-cgi/data my-cgi/data/images 9). 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/common.class my-html/coocoo.class my-html/cooabout.class my-html/coocall.class my-html/cooccoo.class my-html/coomsg.class my-html/coonew.class my-html/coopass.class my-html/coowatch.class my-html/sound22.au my-html/sound25.au my-html/laugh.au my-html/app_coo.htm my-cgi my-cgi/coocoo.cgi my-cgi/data my-cgi/data/images my-cgi/data/images/image_info 10). 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/common.class my-html/coocoo.class my-html/cooabout.class my-html/coocall.class my-html/cooccoo.class my-html/coomsg.class my-html/coonew.class my-html/coopass.class my-html/coowatch.class my-html/sound22.au my-html/sound25.au my-html/laugh.au my-html/app_coo.htm 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 11). Modify app_coo.htm: In the