
APPLETEASE 1.01 
version for JDK1.1.6 
developped by Marco Fasoletti (marcof@generation.net) 


MAIN FEATURES

This software allows you to configure applets visually (even JDK1.1 applets).
This means that it creates html code releiving the user from 
typing it.
It works even as an enhaced applet viewer (enhaced compared 
to the one delivered included in the JDK package).

It is thought to be used in collaboration with HTML processors
. By these ones you can visually create a web 
page, but if you want to include an applet their configuration
 possibilities are somewhat limited.
So in this case you should:
- first of all find some documentation about the applet you
 want to include;
- then read the documentation, taking notes about the exact
 name of the needed parameters;
- go to the html view of your html processor and type the
 exact parameters names and values;
- check the result of your typeing in an external browser
 if your html processor doesn't run applets;
- go back to the html view and type the needed changes;
- recheck the visual result;
- iterate through the last 3 steps untill you have the desired
 result;

If instead you use this software you just need to:
- save the file that has just been created by your html
 processor (with the latter you can decide where to put the
 wanted applet visually and decide its dimension, leave out all
 the others parameters);
- open it within AppletEase: it will just show you the applets
 contained in the html file and not the result of the rest of
 the html code;
- you will see all the possibles parameters that the applet
 supports and you have tools to configure them visually;
- you just click on a button and you see in the upper windows
 the result of your changes in the running applet;
- after configuring the applet, you just click on a button and
 you see in your preferred browser the whole web page with the running
 applet as you set it; this because AppletEase doesn't modify the rest
 of the html code;

But often you don't know wich applet to insert into your web
page since you have a big library of applets.
With AppletEase you can proceed this way:
- open into AppletEase the applets you are interested in (for
 each directory Applet Ease shows you a list of just the html
 file and the class files that are applets);
- once you decided and configured the desired applet, go to the
 html view, copy the html code generated by AppletEase and paste
 it in your web page;



USER GUIDE


Applet List panel

This panel allows you to open an html file or a class file that 
is an applet (it only displays class files that are so). By 
clicking on the "Browse" button you can browse thru you disk 
folders. By clicking on the "Refresh" button it shows new files 
that you have added to the currently displayed folder. Double click
on a file name to open it. If the file is an applet or a html file 
that contains a valid applet, the applet is shows in the upper panel 
and in the lower panel you see the Applet Parameters panel. if it is 
a html file that contains 2 or more applets, you are shows by a windows 
that asks you wich one you want to open. If it is a html file that 
doesn't contain a valid applet a window with the html code will pop 
up, so that you can edit it by hand and then reopen it.


Applet Parameters panel

When the applet has been open, in the lower panel all the supported 
parameters. Those that have some values set in the html file are shown 
with this value right after. You can insert or modify the values by 
hand or try clicking on the parameter name, the Parameter Palette 
shows up by wich you can edit the parameter visually. You can apply 
the changes you made by clicking on the "Apply" button, or undo the 
changes with 2 different types of undo actions or test the whole html 
page in your default browser by clicking on the "Test" button. You can 
see the created html code by clicking on the "Html" button or save it 
by the "Save" button. If you click on the "Stop" button the stop method 
of the applet is called: usually in animated applets this stops the 
animation, it depends on how the applets has been build. Remember that 
the stop method is called by your browser when you go to another web 
page.


Codebase

It allows you to see or set the codebase for the applet. If you click 
on the "Default" button, the "." will be reset.



Html Window

By this window you see the created html code. You copy & paste in another 
application but even type in some html code. If you modify the applet 
html code by clicking on "OK" or "Apply" you see the result of these 
changes in the running applet.


Undo

You have 2 types of undo actions:
"Previous/Next applet" allows you to go the applets or the parameters 
that you previously displayed. This means that at each time you open 
an applet or you apply some parameter changes you can go back to them.
 
"Restore Applied Parameters" resets all the parameters to the values 
they had when you last applied them.


Parameter Palette

This window allows you to set values in the current parameter (the 
one displayed in red), it is up to you to understand if it is a 
color, a font (it shows all the java enabled fonts available on your 
computer) or a font style. You can save/retreive a value using save/get 
buttons (EG a color code you previously stored in a file). The color 
code can have 3 different formats, it depend on the applet. If you have 
to set a file name (EG an image or an audio file) you can browse the 
disk with the "Browse" button, the path will be set with respect of the 
location (relative path) of the current html file.
If you type a color code in the Applet Parameter panel then move the 
mouse pointer back on the Parameter Palette to see how the color looks.

