Installation instructions for FMChat 2.1 - Client Component

Note: in order to have FMChat 2.1 on your site, you must also install FMChat 2.1 - server component

1. Read the file license.html. If you don't fully agree with it then you have no right to install this software. If you have any questions, contact me (florinm@topedge.com).

2. Choose a html file and insert the applet tag for the FMChat applet in it. It must look something like:

<applet code="FMChat.class" align="baseline" width="120" height="30">
<param name="background" value="#000000">
<param name="btn_label" value="start FMChat">
<param name="cgi_path" value="/cgi-bin/fmchat/fmchatcln.exe">
<param name="help_path" value="/florinm/inetprog/fmchat/help.html">
alternate text
</applet>

The applet has 4 parameters:
- "background": background color, applicable only for the applet area embedded in the web page, area which only contain a button. When pressing this button, the FMChat window will be created, but the FMChat window has nothing to do with this background color. Probably you will choose for the background parameter the same value you used for the background of the web page. The color is specified with hexadecimal RGB values, as usual (don't forget the leading #).
- "btn_label": the label for the button used to start FMChat. In the sample file, this is "start FMChat".
- "cgi_path": the path for the fmchatcln.exe (the URL's path component, not the file system's path), installed on step 4.
- "help_path": the path for the help file help.html (the URL's path component, not the file system's path)

3: copy all the .class files and the file help.html in the same folder where the .html file from step 2 resides. These .class files contain the applet code and the help.html file is displayed on the client computer when the Info/Help menu item in FMChat window is chosen. You can freely modify the file help.html if you want.

6. That's all. It must work. If however it doesn't, please contact me. FMChat is simple and robust and it can't have unsolvable problems.

Thank you for using FMChat.