Animator
Last Updated:
10/9/1996 - Added Cross-Frame Page opening capability
9/17/1996 - Added Functions available for Live-Connect
Price info of shareware version is available.
Running Applet is demonstrated below - Scroll to See!!
This applet was by PC Computing Aug/1996 Issue
Running applets:
(It may take a while to load...)
AnimationMode=1 and SoundMode = 0
Always animated and Sound is
played when mousr cursor is over
On_click is disabled
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AnimationMode=1 and SoundMode = 1
Animated when mouse cursor
over and Sound is played when click
On_click is disabled
(Shareware)
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AnimationMode=2 and SoundMode = 0
Animated once at each click and
Sound is played when mousr cursor is over
On_click is disabled
(Shareware)
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AnimationMode=3 and SoundMode = 2
Switch one frame at each click and
Sound is played when click
On_click is disabled
The beautiful pictures above
are from Mark's screen savers
(Shareware)
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SoundApplet: AnimationMode=4 and SoundMode = 0
Always animated except mouse cursor within
and Sound is played when mousr cursor is over
On_click is disabled
The beautiful pictures above
are from Mark's screen savers
(Shareware)
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: Applets work with Javascript!!
Description:
Animator is an appelt written by Mark Qian. It displays an user-specified
animated image with sound. It plays a user-specified sound(an au file)
in an user-specified mode. It also provides a on_click
function to open a given URL address. In additional, it allows you display a
message in the status bar when mouse cursor move over the applet.
NOTE: Both AdWare(FREE) and Shareware versions are
available. The parameters marked with (share) are only
available in shareware version.
Price and registration infor of shareware is available.
:
********* You have to make sure the Adware version (FREE)
works fine in your server before you register the
shareware version because you are buying a Code.
That is, after you register the shareware (pay fee)
only thing you will recieve is a Code which can be
used to unzip the shareware package. The Code is
NOT refundable, NOT returnable, and NOT exchangable.
Don't register the shareware if you are NOT sure
- It REALLY WORK in your server
- You REALLY like to use the shareware.
Parameters:
target - target window where the target URL will be opened.
You can set it to a sub frame if you use frames so
that the URL is opened in the sub frame. You can
also set it to one of following
_top
Bowser will place URL page into top-level window of the browser
_parent
Bowser will place URL page into parent window of the widnow
where HTML resides
_self
Bowser will place URL page into the widnow where HTML resides
_blank
Bowser will place URL page into a new window
speed - the speed of animation.
soundmode =0 Sound is played when mouse cursor over Animator;
=1 Sound is played when clicking;
=2 Sound is played when mouse cursor over Animator
and stop when mouse cuusor exits;
whichBase - 0 the applet uses DocumentBase. That is, applet will search resouces from
the directory where HTML file resides
1 applet uses CodeBase. That is, applet will search resouces from
the directory where Java class files resides.
animatemode=0 Animation is always on;
=1 Animation is on only when mouse cursor moves over it; (share)
(This mode allows you increase the performance of your system.)
=2 Animation is on only when it is clicked and the animation
will be played only once.(This mode is useful when you try to
show some action such as opening a door. (share)
=3 A mouse click only cause Animator to switch frame once.
(This mode is useful when you try to illustrate a series of
pictures.) (share)
=4 Animation is always on except mouse cursor within Animator; (share)
imgname - the names of image files including their paths. For example,
if you like to place image file named myimage_1.gif, myimage_2.gif,
..., myimage_n.gif in a directory named images, you need to assign
a following value to imgname: value=images/myimage_
nimgs - number of images used for animation.
audiofile - the audio file that should reside in
the directory where the applet resides.
on_click - an URL address whose content will be opened by browser
when clicking at the applet. Just set it to "" to disable it.
borderWidth - The bevelwidth of left and right edges(in pixel). Set to 0 if you don't
like to have a border.
borderHeight - The bevelwidth of top and bottom edges(in pixel)
Here are some Cool frames for animation!!
You are welcome to your URL
to Mark's Page:
if you have any Mark's applet running in your page.
This is a great place to make your site popular:
most visitors of this site are webmasters who are in charge of adding links!!
Detail Instructions for installation:
1).
or
What if downloading fails using the button above?
In this case, Go to Author's FTP Page directly to download them there!
Please Send us a message if you encounter
difficulty with downloading so that we can solve the problem shortly.
2). Unzip animator.zip in a temperary directory, say c:\tmp_Anim, in your local machine
3). Run setup.bat to rename class files. Because PKUNZIP will extract the
class file, animator.class, to ANIMATOR.CLA,
you have to RENAME the class file to animator.class if you prefer to
rename them menually. Similarly, rename ANLOAD.CLA
to anload.class and rename COMMON.CLA to common.class
At this time, you should have following files in c:\tmp_Anim
animator.class
common.class
HAIR1.GIF
HAIR2.GIF
HAIR3.GIF
HAIR4.GIF
HAIR5.GIF
HAIR6.GIF
HAIR7.GIF
HAIR8.GIF
HAIR9.GIF
HAIR10.GIF
HAIR11.GIF
HAIR12.GIF
HAIR13.GIF
HAIR14.GIF
HAIR15.GIF
EMAIL.AU
anload.class
README.TXT
TEST_ANI.HTM
4). Open TEST_ANI.HTM with your browser locally. If it works locally,
go to next step. Otherwise, go to step B) below.
5). Try TEST_ANI.HTM online.
- place animator.class and load.class in your HTML directory, say public_html,
in your server. (FTP program may change animator.class to animator.cla. Rename class files as needed).
Be sure that you set the file format to BINARY when you FTP class files
while set file format to ASCII or TEXT when you FTP html files
- place TEST_ANI.HTM, HAIR*.GIF, and EMAIL.AU to public_html
- change access attributes of all the files above to readable using following
Unix commands
chmod 744 ~/public_html/animator.class
chmod 744 ~/public_html/anload.class
chmod 744 ~/public_html/TEST_ANI.HTM
chmod 744 ~/public_html/EMAIL.AU
chmod 744 ~/public_html/HAIR*.GIF
- Browse the TEST_ANI.HTM in your server from your local machine remotely.
If it works, go to next step. Otherwise, go to step B) below.
6). Use your stuff in TEST_ANI.HTM. Replace following part of TEST_ANI.HTM
<param name=audiofile value="EMAIL.AU">
<param name=on_click value="/html/home11_p.htm">
<param name=imgname value="HAIR">
with your stuff, say
<param name=audiofile value="YOURS.AU">
<param name=on_click value="http://.../YOURS.HTM">
<param name=imgname value="YOURS">
where
YOURS.AU - your audio file
http://.../YOURS.HTM - the URL you like to open when images are clicked
YOURS - pre-fix of your image names. That is, your image
files should be YOURS1.GIF, YOURS2.GIF, ..., YOURSn.GIF
(You can place any number of images amd URLs based on your need
Note: don't forget to change parameter nimgs to match the
number of your images).
You can use shareware such as PaintShop to edit your own gif images.
You may want to edit your own AU files using shareware like COOLEDIT.
Be sure that you try the minimum quality first: Mono, 8 bit, 8000Khz Sample rate. You can also
convert a MIDI file to AU using CSound in order to play it with this applet.
If it works, go to next step. Otherwise, go to step B) below.
7). Insert the applet to your page, say YOURS.HTM. Copy-paste following part of TEST_ANI.HTM
to the place you want in YOURS.HTM
<applet code="animator.class" width=60 height=50>
<param name=speed value="9">
<param name=borderWidth value="3">
<param name=borderHeight value="3">
<param name=soundmode value="2">
<param name=RegistrationCode value="f2.0-5784957">
<param name=animatemode value="0">
<param name=nimgs value="15">
<param name=audiofile value="YOURS.AU">
<param name=on_click value="http://.../YOURS.HTM">
<param name=imgname value="YOURS">
</applet>
Browse YOURS.HTM in your server.
If it works, go to next step. Otherwise, go to step B) below.
8). Place resource files to a sub-directory, say resource, using
following Unix commands:
mkdir ~/public_html/resource
chmod 755 ~/public_html/resource
mv ~/public_html/YOURS.AU ~/public_html/resource
mv ~/public_html/YOURS*.GIF ~/public_html/resource
Change the corresponding reference in YOURS.HTM to match your change:
<param name=audiofile value="resource/YOURS.AU">
<param name=imgname value="resource/YOURS">
Browse the page in your server.
If it works, go to next step. Otherwise, go to step B) below.
9). Congraduation!! Do Mark a favor: let him know you did it!!
Enjoy it !! (Don't forget to BOOKMARK this page so that you can update it shortly:
Animator will be upgraded frequently).
B). Contact Mark Qian.
Please describe
- which step you have reached
- the errors you get in details(If you use Netscape, click at menu item
Option | Show Java Console and copy-paste-EMAIL the content there to Mark).
- If you have rearched step 5 or later, run following Unix commands to save
access attribute infor into a file, say tttt
cd ~/public_html
ls -l animator.class > tttt
ls -l HAIR*.* >> tttt
ls -l anload.class >> tttt
ls -l EMAIL.AU >> tttt
ls -l TEST_ANI.HTM >> tttt
Then, EMAIL file tttt to Mark Qian so that he can ensure if all the file attributes are setup OK.
To learn how to place a Java applet into your page,
please go to this page and select "How to Add Java Applet to Your Site"
at the bottom of the page.
