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*                                                               *
*                           CooWild(1.10)                       *
*                            Java Applet                        *
*                         Written by Mark Qian                  *
*                                                               *
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CooWild is a live menu system(java applet)
where waterfowl fly over rivers, lakes, oceans...
under sunset...in Spring...Winter...
Each fly object represents one or more web objects (pages). 


Features include: 

  - each object represent links with tooltips description. The correspending
    URL is opened when clicked.
  - Description about links can be popped up as tooltips periodically or when mouse
    cursor is moved on the object.
  - Object and background images can be replaced with your own images.


This is an Adware version which is FREE.
This may NOT be the latest version. Please go

http://www.coolshare.com 

to get the latest version and more Cool and FREE stuff.

A major difference between an Adware version and a registered
shareware version is that an ad link will randomly replace your
links so that visitors can jump to author's site is included.

The registered shareware version is also available at

http://www.coolshare.com

  

System requirements:
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  - A browser which support JDK1.1.5



Arguments:
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  cw_tipsPeriod             - period of tooltips stay on screen. Default is 15.

 cw_objSpeed               - speed of fly objects. Minimum is 1 and maximum is 9. Default is 4.

 cw_randomBg               - switch bg randomly if 1. Default is 1.

 cw_object1...cw_objectN   - urls of fly objects. Parameter cw_object1...cw_objectN will be
                             combined into a single string. Info for each object is contained
                             in a section.  Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each
                             section, there are subsections: each sebsection contains an url
                             for a scene of the object. Subsections are divided with delimitor "|".
             
 cw_link1...cw_linkN       - urls of waterfowl. Parameter cw_link1...cw_linkN will be
                             combined into a single string. Info for each link is contained
                             in a section.  Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each
                             section, there are two subsections: the first one is the url of the
                             link and the other is the description of the link. Subsections 
                             are divided with delimitor "|".

          
 cw_bg1...cw_bgN           - urls of waterfowl. Parameter cw_bg1...cw_bgN will be
                             combined into a single string. Info for each bg image is contained
                             in a section.  Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each
                             section, there are two subsections: the first one is the reflect range and
                             the other is the url of the bg image. Subsections are divided with delimitor "|".
                             Reflect Range is a number between -100 and 100. Here is some values and their meanings:

                                0    - take the entire bg image as reflection image
                                50   - take TOP 50% of bg image as reflection image 
                                -50  - take BOTTOM 50% of bg image as reflection image 

 cw_sound1...cw_soundN     - urls of waterfowl. Parameter cw_sound1...cw_soundN will be
                             combined into a single string. Info for each sound url is contained
                             in a section.  Sections are divided with delimitor "^#^". In each
                             section, there are subsections: each sebsection contains an url
                             of a sound. Subsections are divided with delimitor "|".

 cw_target                 - Similar to the open mode in HTML, it can be specified as "_blank", "_self", and so on. Default is "_blank".

 cw_linkPeriod             - Links attached to each objec will be switched so that a single object can
                             show more than one links. Set it to -1 if you don't want to attach multiple
                             links to a single object. Default is 300.

 cw_showLinkAsSwitch          - link description will be shown when link is switched if set to 1. Set it to 0 if you don't
                             like link description to be displayed when link is switched. Default is 1.

 cw_soundPeriod            - period of sound. Default is 50.

 cw_bgPeriod               - period of bg switch. Default is 200.

 cw_numObj                 - number of fly object. It can be a positive number or a negative number.  A positive number
                             means EXACTLY that many object will be generated while a negative number means
                             that the number of object will be generated randomly and the maximum is (- cw_numOnj).
                             Default is -5.

 cw_tips                   - image file for tooltips. You can get a transparent tips background if you ignore this parameter.

 cw_screenW                - widht of popup screen. Set it to -1 if you want full screen.
                             Default is 630.

 cw_screenH                - height of popup screen. Set it to -1 if you want full screen.
                             Default is 420.

 cw_keyExit                - if 1, close popup window when key is pressed. Default is 0. 

 cw_mouseClickExit         - if 1, close popup window when clicking. Default is 0.
                             It is not available in an Adware version.

 cw_mouseMoveExit          - if 1, close popup window when moving mouse. Default is 0.
                             It is not available in an Adware version.

 cw_popup                  - if 1, CooWild will be contain in a popup window
                             Default is 0.

 cw_showExit               - if 1, a exit button will be placed in the popup window
                             Default is 1.

 cw_showOpen               - if 1, a open button will be placed applet areat in browser
                             Default is 0.
   
 cw_autoOpen               - if 1, a popup window containing CooWild will be opened right after applet is loaded.
                             Default is 0.

 cw_tipsFg                 - font color of tips. Default is "000000".

 cw_flyStylePeriod         - period of fly style switching. Default is 200.





Installation instructions:
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   0). Download CooWild at

        http://www.coolshare.com/html/app_cw.htm

   1). Unzip cootank.zip to, say c:\test

       you will get following files
  

         c:\test\coowild.jar
         c:\test\bird1.au
         c:\test\bird2.au
         c:\test\bird12.gif
         c:\test\bird13.gif
         c:\test\bird14.gif
         c:\test\bird15.gif
         c:\test\bird16.gif
         c:\test\bird17.gif
         c:\test\bird11.gif
         c:\test\tips.gif
         c:\test\view1.gif
         c:\test\view2.gif
         c:\test\view3.gif
         c:\test\view4.gif
         c:\test\view5.gif
         c:\test\test_cw.htm
         c:\test\Readme.txt
         c:\test\file_id.diz



   2). Try it off-line.  Just open test_cw.htm with a browser.

   3). Upload files on to your server, say http://www.mysite.com/

       You need to upload following files to your server and you

       will get them as following

         http://www.mysite.com/coowild.jar
         http://www.mysite.com/bird1.au
         http://www.mysite.com/bird2.au
         http://www.mysite.com/bird12.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/bird13.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/bird14.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/bird15.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/bird16.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/bird17.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/bird11.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/tips.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/view1.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/view2.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/view3.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/view4.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/view5.gif
         http://www.mysite.com/test_cw.htm




   4). Try it online. Browse http://www.mysite.com/test_cw.htm with IE 4.x
       or upgrated Netscape.  Note: a regular Netscape browser downloaded
       from Netscape won't work. You need to upgrate it to support JDK1.1.

       Go 

          http://developer.netscape.com/software/jdk/download.html

       to upgrate it.


       Or simply switch to IE at http://www.microsoft.com/ie/download/


         


For more info, contact the author, Mark Qian, at ok@coolshare.com or
visit  http://www.coolshare.com to get more FREE Java stuff and cool screen savers.


