Biorythm Celebrities

Installing the applet

Table Of Contents

Before you begin
Simple Use
Embedding into a webpage
Modifying the game
Frequently Asked Questions

Before You begin

If you didn't read the readme file do it now.
Make sure you extracted all files out of the original ZIP file to a separate directory.
Run the demo.htm file
Check if everything works fine, if it doesn't now it won't later.
Decide what you would like to do, click for more information.
Simply use the applet in a blank page.
Embed the existing aplet into a page you created.
Embed and modify the applet.

Remember to check the FAQ if anything goes wrong later.

Simple Page
To simply use the applet this is the easiest way:

Choose a directory on your website where the applet should be.
Upload all the files from this applet directory to there. If you can choose between Binary and ASCII mode choose Binary or AUTO. Also upload the "pictures" directory.
create a link from one of your webpages to "demo.htm".
Finished!

Embedding into an existing page
A little bit more work but worth it.
Open the web page you will insert it to into an HTML editor. If you use a visual editor (WYSIWYG) a text editor is recommended (like notepad.exe).
Choose the place where it should be (somwehere between the <body> tags). Then Copy/Paste this code:
<APPLET CODE=BioCeleb.class archive="BioCeleb.jar" codebase="." WIDTH=500 HEIGHT=350>
<param name="bgcolor" value="000,000,128">
<param name="fgcolor" value="0,255,255">
<param name="shadowcolor" value="100,100,100">
<param name="str1" value="Your First Name (optional):">
<param name="str2" value="Your Birthdate:">
<param name="str3" value="Compare with Male or Female?">
<param name="str4" value="Choose Celebrity:">
<param name="str5" value="Results for">
<param name="str6" value="Best matches for">
<param name="str7" value="Please give a valid date">
<param name="str8" value="Year">
<param name="str9" value="Month">
<param name="str10" value="Day">
<param name="str11" value="Male">
<param name="str12" value="Female">
<param name="str13" value="Best 6">
<param name="str14" value="is the one for you!">
<param name="str15" value="Please Wait">
<param name="str16" value="Emotional">
<param name="str17" value="Intellectual">
<param name="str18" value="Physical">
<param name="str19" value="Physical">
<param name="str20" value="Good luck...">
<param name="str21" value="Not so good, many conflicts ahead">
<param name="str22" value="Could work out">
<param name="str23" value="With some effort">
<param name="str24" value="Good match!">
<param name="str25" value="Perfect couple, can't go wrong!">
<param name="str26" value="You must have cheated!!!">
Java is not enabled!<br>
Please visit <a href="http://www.realapplets.com" target="_blank">RealApplets</a> for Help.
</APPLET>

Save it and now upload that page.
Then also upload all files from the applet directory to that same directory as your web page. Choose Auto or BINARY if possible.
This code will show a link to RealApplets when a user does not have Java Enabled. You are not obliged to keep that link, however it is handy since we have a large section to help those people.
Using and modifying the applet
You can change following things:

Foreground color: Parameter is fgcolor, this is the text color. It is in RGB (Red/Green/Blue) format, eg. 255,0,0 is the brightest red.
Background color: Bgcolor
Shadow Color: Shadowcolor.
Text in the applet: Parameters from "str1" to "str26". Change the text within the quotes.
Celebrities: These are the celebrity birthdates, genders, names and pictures. This data is in data1c.txt and can be modified there. Before you do make sure you backup the orginal.
The file starts with a number. This tell the applet how many celebrities there are in the file. If you add celebrities make sure to increase that number.
Then there are lines like this
26/11/1980 male robin.jpg Robin Williams

This is how you can insert data. Start with the Birthdate in DD/MM/YYYY
insert a space then type his/her gender: "male" or "female"
insert a space then type the file name of the picture to show (a GIF or JPG).
insert a space and type his/her name.

To install this version do as in "Embedding into a page" but copy/paste your own version of parameters. And if you added celebrities make sure to upload their pictures too.

Frequently Asked Questions
The area where the applet should be stays gray
This is because the applet encountered an error while trying to load.
Check these things:

Check it offline to see if it is working there, if so a problem occurred while uploading. Some files were not uploaded or file were uploaded in ACII mode.
Check that you have the JAR file in your directory.
Make sure your applet parameters ar right, if modified if they are in the right format.
Check if while uploading none of your file names were converted to another case (UPPERCASE/lowercase).

Some images do not display
Check the case of the filenames (as above). Make sure pictures are in the subdirectory pictures.
I added/removed celebrities and it doesn't work.
Check if you changed the number in the data file to the right amount of celebrities.
Make sure you used the same format as described above.
Written by Bavo Bruylandt.

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