VMaxWeAreOpened Applet

 
This applet converts your service working days and hours, defined in terms of your local timezone, to client local timezone and display your working hours in table. You visitors can see when you are on-line and select better time to contact you.

 

Applet tag code example 

<APPLET CODE=vmaxweareopened.class WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=140>
<PARAM NAME="TIMEZONE"       VALUE="-360">
<PARAM NAME="DLSTSTART"      VALUE="Apr Last  Sun 02:00">
<PARAM NAME="STANDARDSTART"  VALUE="Oct First Sun 02:00">
<PARAM NAME="DLSTBIAS"       VALUE="-60">
<PARAM NAME="STANDARDNAME"   VALUE="CST">
<PARAM NAME="DLSTNAME"       VALUE="CDT">
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR"        VALUE="ffffff">
<PARAM NAME="TEXTCOLOR"      VALUE="000000">
<PARAM NAME="CROSSCOLOR"     VALUE="0000ff">
<PARAM NAME="GRIDCOLOR"      VALUE="c0c0c0">
<PARAM NAME="FONT"           VALUE="dialog,1,10">
<PARAM NAME="AUTHOR"         VALUE="Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)">
<PARAM NAME="KEY"            VALUE="Free Version">
<PARAM NAME="OPENEDCOLOR"    VALUE="00a000">
<PARAM NAME="CLOSEDCOLOR"    VALUE="ffffff">
<PARAM NAME="OPENEDDAYS"     VALUE="-+++++-">
<PARAM NAME="OPENEDHOURS"    VALUE="---------+++++-++++-----">
<PARAM NAME="DEBUG"          VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="OPENEDTEXT"     VALUE="We opened right now !">
<PARAM NAME="CLOSEDTEXT"     VALUE="Now closed. Please, choose better time to call us">
</APPLET>
Parameters
TIMEZONE Your timezone offset in minutes (Standard time assumed)
For example, for GMT:-6:00 timezone use "-360"
DLSTSTART Your DayLight time start date rule.
(Transition date from Standard time to DLST time)

Applet parses string considering it have the following format:
"Mon DD modifier WDay HH:MM"
Where
Mon is three letter Months abbreviations (obligatory)
DD (optional) transition day of the month
Modifier  (optional) is optional keyword, one of the following: first,second,third,fourth or last.
WDay  (optional) 3 letters abbreviation of weekday.
HH:MM is transition time (obligatory)
All above params are in terms of server local standard time (not including DLST).

Some examples:
"May 1 02:00"    transition at 02:00 of May,1
"Apr Last Sun 03:00 "   transition at Last sunday of April at 03:00
"Oct First Sat 03:00"  transition at first Satturday of October
 
STANDARDSTART Your Standard Time start date, same syntax as above
(Transition date from  DLST time to Standard time) 
DLSTBIAS DLST bias in minutes, most zimezones have it "-60", ( one hour ahead )
STANDARDNAME Optional string to be shown to indicate standard time.
DLSTNAME Optional string to be shown to indicate DLST time
BGCOLOR Background color in hexadecimal RRGGBB format, same as html colors are, but without # radix symbol.
TEXTCOLOR Text Color, same format as BGCOLOR
CROSSCOLOR Crosshair pointer to current client time color.
GRIDCOLOR Grid color
OPENEDCOLOR Cell color for opened hours
CLOSEDCOLOR Cell color for closed hours
FONT Optional font settings, includes FontName , FontSyle and FontSize separated by comma.
FontName can be ONLY one of the following platform independent fonts supported by Java
  • dialog 
  • Helvetica 
  • inputDialog 
  • Courier 
  • TimesRoman

    • Keep in mind that font names are case sensitive.

    Fontstyle:
    0-plain
    1-bold
    2-italic
    3-bold Italic

    FontSize any positive integer
     
    OPENEDTEXT Text string to be displayed for  'opened now' state
    CLOSEDTEXT Text string to be displayed for  'closed now' state
    OPENEDDAYS 7 characters string containing 7 '+' or '-' chars, First character corresponds to Sunday, last character to saturday.
    OPENEDHOURS 24 characters string of + or - first character corresponds to 0:00-1:00 period, last character corresponds to 23:00-24:00 period
    AUTHOR Obligatory parameter, should be "Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)" don't alter it's value.
    KEY "Free Version" will show last modified date for specified file, but on mouse click will link back to VMax pages.
    If you want to get rid out of it, please, register the applet, valid key would completly remove this 'features' of free version. 

    Additional Notes
    1. Size of cells is adjusted automatically according to font size.
    2. Applet can display wrong results if time and timezone settings on client's side are incorrect.