VolanoChat 1.2 Sample Page

This page lets you check your installation of VolanoChat 1.2. It also tells you how to modify VolanoChat's settings in order to replace its text, images, sounds, colors, fonts, help pages, buttons, logos, and advertisements with those representing yourself or your company.

Please make sure to read the following four sections:

• Installation Check
• Configuration
• Release Notes
• Upgrading from VolanoChat 1.1

You must complete the VolanoChat 1.2 Setup steps before checking your installation from this page. After completing those steps and starting your VolanoChat Server, press the button below to start the VolanoChat Client applet. When the VolanoChat window appears, enter a nickname for yourself where it says Your name and press the button labeled Enter Room.

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Some quick tips:

• Click a room name to see who is in the room.
• Click a person's name to see his or her profile.
• After entering a room, double click a person's name to pull him or her into a private chat room.

Below is a sample of the VolanoChat Client with its room monitoring interface enabled. You must first set the server.password Server property before you can monitor any chat rooms.

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You need not change any configuration settings in order to run VolanoChat, but there are many attributes of the Client and Server that you can replace with those representing you or your company. Follow the two links below for a complete description of all settings:

• Configuring your VolanoChat Client
• Configuring your VolanoChat Server

This release contains the following fixes and enhancements to VolanoChat 1.1:

• a smaller applet size of 95KB for Netscape Navigator (down from 119KB, and still only 39KB for Microsoft Internet Explorer),
• clickable hypertext links in user profiles (http, ftp, mailto, and news),
• display of user profiles and status in all chat room windows,
• a simpler client interface, using a menu bar for many of the client functions,
• a reduction in network traffic between the client and server,
• a reduction in the server's memory usage,
• improved performance for the server,
• improved error handling and reporting for the client and server,
• improved recovery from bugs in the Java Virtual Machine running the server,
• a central location for all client text, HTML, image, and sound files,
• a CGI interface for automatically adding user names and profiles,
• a time suffix on each log file for easier log file management,
• the addition of kicking and banning information in the logs, including who kicked or banned whom, and
• compatibility with the new Netscape Communicator 4.0 and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 browsers based on Java 1.1.

If you are upgrading from VolanoChat 1.1, you should take note of the following changes listed below.

• The VolanoChat Server and its status program are now started with simpler commands. The commands in VolanoChat 1.1 were:

    java COM.volano.chat.server.Main
    java COM.volano.chat.server.Status
  

  The commands in VolanoChat 1.2 are now simply:

    java COM.volano.Main
    java COM.volano.Status
  

  You should change any shell scripts or batch command files you have created which start VolanoChat so that they use the new command format.

• All of the Client configuration files, such as the image, HTML, property, and sound files, are now in one location under the vcclient directory by default. That is, the Client files in VolanoChat 1.1 were under the directories:

    vcclient/COM/volano/chat/images
    vcclient/COM/volano/chat/pages
    vcclient/COM/volano/chat/properties
    vcclient/COM/volano/chat/sounds
  

  The files in VolanoChat 1.2 are now simply under the directory:

    vcclient
  

  You should move any of your own image, HTML, property, and sound files to the new common directory.

• The following Client properties for the Options button and the font dialog have been deleted (shown below with their English defaults):

    text.main.options=Options...
    text.status.focus.options=Select your font preferences.
  
    text.font.title=Font
    text.font.name=Font:
    text.font.style=Style:
    text.font.size=Size:
    text.font.sample=Sample:
    text.font.okay=Okay
    text.font.cancel=Cancel
    text.font.default=Default
    text.font.regular=Regular
    text.font.italic=Italic
    text.font.bold=Bold
    text.font.bolditalic=Bold Italic
  

  You can safely remove these properties from any of your own VolanoChat Client property files.

• The following Client properties for the chat status area, menu bar, and menu items have been added (shown below with their English defaults):

    text.chat.status=Select a name to see the profile. Double click a name for private chat.
  
    text.menu.server=Rooms
    text.menu.enter=Enter Room
    text.menu.refresh=Refresh Rooms
    text.menu.exit=Exit
  
    text.menu.options=Options
    text.menu.font.name=Font Name
    text.menu.font.name.list=Helvetica TimesRoman Courier Dialog ZapfDingbats
    text.menu.font.style=Font Style
    text.menu.font.regular=Regular
    text.menu.font.italic=Italic
    text.menu.font.bold=Bold
    text.menu.font.bolditalic=Bold Italic
    text.menu.font.size=Font Size
    text.menu.font.size.list=8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 22 24 26 28 30 36 48 72
    text.menu.font.default=Font Default
  
    text.menu.help=Help
    text.menu.topics=Help Topics
    text.menu.about=About %0
  

  You should add these properties to any of your own VolanoChat Client property files.

• The following Server property has been deleted, since a time stamp is now used as the log suffix for all log files:

    log.suffix=1
  

  You can safely remove this property from your VolanoChat Server property file.

• The chat log file contains an extra item at the end of the log record when the connection was closed because the user was kicked or banned by a monitor. The extra item is the host name of the monitor who kicked or banned the user.

  You should account for the new item in any scripts or batch command files you have written which process the contents of the chat log file.