Chinese Viewer

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Introduction:

What is this?

        This is a java applet(program) that helps you/your friends to read Chinese without any Chinese software and font. A Stand Along version is also available for download.

Who should use it?

        Those people/organization that are kind enough to provide Chinese on-line magazines/readings on their web sites.
 

Why should I use it?

        If you have a lot of cool Chinese readings on your web site, you certainly want the "whole world" to share them with you.  But what happen if your readers don't have any Chinese software? They just can't read it!  Since you are so kind, you end up convert all your chinese articles to gif format. That is not too bad if you have time and disk space.
        Is there a better way? Well, here it is.  Just put the applet some where on your web site and set up the correct links to those Chinese articles. Then anyone uses a java 1.0/1.1 enabled browser should be able to read them.
 

How can I use it?

        You know how to embed an applet into a web page. If not, take a look at the source of this page. The Applet tag should look like this:

<APPLET codebase="." code="GBViewerApplet.class" width=170 height=150>
<PARAM name="file1" value="link">
<PARAM name="file2" value="link">
<PARAM name="file3" value="link">
<PARAM name="file4" value="link">
<PARAM name="file5" value="link">
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reasons." Your browser is completely ignoring the &lt;APPLET> tag!&nbsp;
</APPLET>

        You can include as many links as you want by putting more <PARAM name="filen" value="link">  . ( n always goes in increasing order). Link can be relative or absolute URLs.

For example:

<APPLET codebase="." code="GBViewerApplet.class" width=170 height=150>
<PARAM name="file1" value="fhy9806c.gb">
<PARAM name="file2" value="jokes/Joke_Collection">
<PARAM name="file3" value="Professor_Huang">
<PARAM name="file4" value="Culture_RevolutionHumor.gb">
<PARAM name="file5" value="Classical_Dirty_Jokes">
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reasons." Your browser is completely ignoring the &lt;APPLET> tag!&nbsp;
</APPLET>
 
 

Background and More:

    Since the security restriction of java applet, all the links have to be on the same server as the applet.

    The program is still in Beta version and should have problems. I have tested it on some versions of netscape and IE and they all worked fine. If you use IE, just wait a while after opening a file the first time. You may not get immediate response.

    This program has been designed to use any bitmap font. However, it only support gb at this moment (use cclib.16). If there are demands and I have time, the next version will support big5.

    Since java is interpreted by JVM, the speed of java program is relatively slow. I guess you wouldn't notice it if your machine is faster than 200Mhz.

    For speed concern, I disabled the scroll bar .

    There are some keys that can help you read back or forth. I forgot what they are. -:)

    Last updated Oct 19 1998 (some bugs fixed).
 

Copyright:

    This program is absolutely free and I take no responsibilities for whatever problems it may cause. If you want, you can send me your web address. All rights reserved.

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