With VolanoChat, you can create a combination of default public chat rooms, dynamic public chat rooms and dynamic personal chat rooms (VolanoChatPro only). VolanoChat allows you to host chat rooms on remote web sites and create worldwide chat networks. Chat rooms can be customized with unique room names, languages, colors, fonts, and images.
Default public chat rooms are generated from the rooms.txt
file.
In order to create default public chat rooms, enter the names of your rooms in
the rooms.txt
file. There is no limit on the number of default
public rooms that can be included on the list.
Whenever the
rooms.txt
file is edited, the VolanoChat server must be restarted for the new default room names
to be displayed.
Dynamic public chat rooms are created by adding the code for the VolanoChat Client applet -- a few lines of HTML -- to a web page. When someone pushes the "VolanoChat" button, a publicly accessible chat room will be created on-the-fly with the room name defined by the web page's code's "group" parameter. Chat rooms generated on remote web sites operate the same way as the standard public chat rooms, but these rooms are displayed only when someone enters the chat room from the web page that generates the room. These dynamic public chat room remain visible as long as there is someone in the room, or the person that created the room is still connected to the chat server. There is no limit on the number of dynamic public rooms that can be created.
The HTML applet
tag for the VolanoChat Client applet looks like
the following, where the parts you modify are shown in
italics. All parameters other than the
cabbase
may be omitted in order to let them take their default
values.
<applet codebase="http://hostname/vcclient" archive="COM/volano/VolanoChat.zip" code="COM.volano.VolanoChat.class" width=500 height=60> <param name="cabbase" value="COM/volano/VolanoChat.cab"> <param name="monitor" value="false"> <param name="color" value="#ffffff"> <param name="group" value="Your Room Name"> <param name="text" value="english.txt"> </applet>
for which:
codebase
applet
tag.
monitor
true
or false
.
When used with the correct password, the monitoring version allows you to kick
users out of the VolanoChat Server or to ban them permanently from entering.
The default value is false
.
color
#RRGGBB
as your Web page's bgcolor
attribute, where RR
is the red hexadecimal value, GG
is the green hexadecimal value, and BB
is the blue hexadecimal
value. The default color is white (#ffffff)
.
group
text
english.txt
. Instead of English, you can
also specify french.txt
, german.txt
,
italian.txt
, portuguese.txt
, spanish.txt
,
or any other language property file you specify.
Dynamic private chat rooms are created by adding the MyVolanoChat Client applet to a web page with a few simple lines of HTML. When someone pushes the button for "MyVolanoChat," a dynamic private chat room is created on your chat server. Personal chat rooms generated from remote web sites operate differently than public chat rooms in several ways:
The HTML applet
tag for the MyVolanoChat Client applet
looks like the following, where the parts you modify are shown in
italics. All parameters other than the
cabbase
may be omitted, in which case they assume their
default values.
<applet codebase="http://hostname/vcclient" archive="COM/volano/MyVolanoChat.zip" code="COM.volano.MyVolanoChat.class" width=500 height=60> <param name="cabbase" value="COM/volano/MyVolanoChat.cab"> <param name="color" value="#ffffff"> <param name="group" value="Your Room Name"> <param name="text" value="english.txt"> </applet>
for which:
codebase
applet
tag.
color
#RRGGBB
as your Web page's bgcolor
attribute, where RR
is the red hexadecimal value, GG
is the green hexadecimal value, and BB
is the blue hexadecimal
value. The default color is white (#ffffff)
.
group
text
english.txt
. Instead of English, you can
also specify french.txt
, german.txt
,
italian.txt
, portuguese.txt
, spanish.txt
,
or any other language properties file your create.