GaraxiChat 2.2 User's Guide

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6. Using applet
6.1 The difference between "Chatter applet" and "Admin applet"
6.1.1 Chatter applet
6.1.2 Admin applet
6.2 Chatter mode (Chatter applet)
6.2.1 Basic concept
6.2.2 Setting avartars
6.2.3 User profile
6.2.4 Change password
6.2.5 Options
6.2.6 Font setting
6.2.7 Using emoticons
6.2.8 Using font color & background color
6.2.9 General look & feel setting
6.2.10 Ignore/Unignore user
6.2.11 View user's profile
6.2.12 Create room
6.2.13 Delete room
6.2.14 Kick & Ban user from room
6.2.15 Prevent your profile.
6.2.16 Sound alert
6.2.17 Disable private message & auto popup in private message
6.3 "Admin applet" (Admin applet)
6.3.1 Server configuration via applet
6.3.1.1 General setting
6.3.1.2 Private chat style setting
6.3.1.3 Add/Delete Banned IP for server.
6.3.1.4 Add/Delete Banned "nickname" for server.
6.3.1.5 Wall (Write message to all user) setting
6.3.1.6 Chat log setting
6.3.1.7 Registration
6.3.2 Create room
6.3.2.1 General details
6.3.2.2 Room's style
6.3.2.3 Room's robot
6.3.3 Manage/Modify room
6.3.3.1 Room's moderator role
6.3.3.2 Room's owner role
6.3.3.3 Kick user from room
6.3.3.4 Ban IP from room
6.3.3.5 Ban registered member from room
6.3.3.6 Un ban IP from room
6.3.3.7 Un ban registered member from room
6.3.3.8 Define room look & feel
6.3.3.9 Define room's robot
6.3.4 Delete room
6.3.5 Create new user (create normal user or another Admin privilege user)
6.3.6 Invisible mode (hide yourself from all chatters)
6.3.7 Users managements
6.3.8 Banner rotator managements

6.1 The difference between "Chatter applet" and "Admin applet"

"Chatter Applet" basically located at [YOUR_INSTALLED_PATH]/client/chatter
and
"Admin Applet" basically located at [YOUR_INSTALLED_PATH]/client/admin

"Chatter Applet" for your clients or customers who would like to chat because it's small and load fast (around 140 kb. - 160 kb.)
"Admin Applet" ideal for the Administrator and accept only the Admin privilege account. Because it bigger than "Chatter Applet" and give you the full control to the server.


6.1.1 Chatter applet
Chatter applet could do these.
- Possibility to chat in room
- Possibility to private chat with another user
- Create temporary room that'll automatically delete when nobody chat in that room
- Create the permanent room in case that you're login with the Admin privilege account
- Delete any room if you login with the Admin privilege account
- Delete your own room
- Kick other users from room in case that you're the moderator or room's owner.
- Ban nickname or IP address from room or server if you're login with the Admin privilege account
- Accept the connection from "normal user" or "Admin privilege user"
Chatter applet couldn't do these
- Modify or edit room look & feel
- Can't delete/manage the banned IP address or banned nickname for each room
- Can't delete/manage the banned IP address for server
- Can't manage the Server properties
- Can't modify the private chat look & feel


6.1.2 Admin applet
"Admin Applet" could do everything that "Chatter Applet" include these
- Modify/Edit/Manage each room's look & feel
- Manage(add/delete) banned IP/nickname for each room
- Manage(add/delete) banned IP/nickname for whole server
- Manage Server properties
- Manage the private chat style look & feel
- Become to "invisible mode" ideally for hide yourself in room and monitoring.
- Broadcast messages to all users in room
- Broadcast auto popup URL to all users in room
- Grant another "registered user" to become the room's moderator in each room.

6.2 Chatter mode
6.2.1 Basic concept
GaraxiChat applet is the client applet that connect to GaraxiChat server. Sample of GaraxiChat applet look like figure below.




GaraxiChat 1.0 try to make look & feel like other chat in market today but improved! To user control and optimize to suit user's need.



6.2.2 Setting avatars

If you're registered member of GaraxiChat system, your avatar will save to database server. And GaraxiChat will keep remember your avatar when login next time.
• Go to some chat room
• Press button "Chat configuration"
• Click tab "Avatars"
• Choose your desired avatars and click "OK"



6.2.3 User profile

Like avatars If you're registered member your profile will save to database at next login time. Set your profile by.
• Go to some chat room
• Press button "Chat configuration"
• Click tab "User Profile"
• Type your profiles
• Click "OK"



6.2.4 Change password

Only registered GaraxiChat member can change password.
• Go to some chat room or private room.
• Press button "Chat configuration"
• Click tab "Change password"
• Type your "Old password", "New password" and "Retype your password"
• Click "Change password"



6.2.5 Options
General options you can change 2 things
• Enable private message (Enable people to private chat message with you if disable it's like "don't disturb")
• Enable popup in private message (Enable auto popup message when people request for private chat)


Enable/disable these 2 options by


• Go to some chat room or private room.
• Press button "Chat configuration"
• Click tab "Options"
• Enable or disable options.
• Click "OK"



6.2.6 Font setting
Setting font name,style and size of chat area.


• Go to some chat room or private room.
• Press button "Chat configuration"
• Click tab "Font setting"
• Choose your most appropriated font, size and style.
• Click "OK"



6.2.7 Using emoticons



• In each chat room or privated chat just click button "emoticons"



6.2.8 Using font foreground color & font background color



In color setting dialog you can choose background and foreground color of both "nickname" and "message" in each room or private chat.
• In each chat room or privated chat just click button "font color setting"



6.2.9 Generic look & feel



In each chat room and privated chat window. You can set look & feel of each room by click the "hot menu" button, it'll expand the popup menu. You can choose to enable separator, color, background, or avatars.



6.2.10 Ignore/Un ignore user



By choose given user (Only one user per time) and press button "Ignore" like figure above. After ignore user, he/her will can't private chat message with you and you won't see his/her anymore. It's tell server you don't want to receive any kind of message from them.



6.2.11 View user's profile



View user profile by choose participant's name and press button "View profile". Wait for the secs. server will load information and show to you like above figure.
6.2.12 Create room


To crate the room from "Chatter applet". If you're the Admin privilege account you can create the permanent room, but if you're normal user or guest user you can only create the temporary room that automatically delete when nobody chat in this room.
At the room list tab you can create room by press button "Create room", next the create room dialog box will come up. Type your room name & topic.
** Please note, if you're registered user you don't need to specify the password.
The password is for only un-registered username to make the chat realize that you're the room's ower and become the moderator of this room automatically.
Done, you've been created your own room and you're automatically the moderator of this room. You can kick another user,ban other username/IP. But this room will be automatically delete when nobody chat in this room.
6.2.13 Delete room

To delete room just go to "room list" tab, select the room, press "Delete room" button. Done !
6.2.14 Kick & Ban user from room

In each room, you can kick & ban user from room if you're moderator,room's ower or Administrtor privileges account.

Select user that you want to kick/ban and "RIGHT CLICK", the program will show menu as shown above. Choose the action that you want, done.
6.2.15 Prevent your profile.

To prevent other users to view your profile just press the button "Config" from your toolbar.

Choose tab "Options"

To prevent or show your private info just check the check box "People can view my profile".
Done.
6.2.16 Sound alert

To enable sound alert, press the button "Config" from your toolbar.

Choose tab "Options"

Garaxi Chat support 4 types of sound notification
- Play sound when receive private message
- Play sound when receive room message
- Play sound when new user enter room
- Play sound when user leave from room


6.2.17 Disable private message & auto popup in private message

To private and auto popup in private message, press the button "Config" from your toolbar.

Choose tab "Options"

Apply what you want to click "OK".

6.3 Administration mode
"Admin" account is reserved only for Webmaster or Site Administrator
With Administration mode it's allow only username "Admin" can logon to system. By default when you installed GaraxiChat server the default username & password for Admin is

Username : Admin
Password : Admin

If you intend to use this chat server in real world please change password before using it in real world. With Admin account you can do all administrative operation such as create, edit and delete room event it's not own by Admin.
Let's say it's the "super chat user" of GaraxiChat system.
6.3.1 Server configuration via applet
GaraxiChat offer you with the easy administrate via applet (the same applet as normal chat applet). By set the applet directive configuration properly. See section Applet configuration for more detail. Suppose you open GaraxiChat applet and login as "Admin". At the main tab select "Rooms list", at the bottom of this page press button "Server config". Server configuration dialog will come up.
6.3.1.1 General setting



Here are the details of each configuration.
• Enable temporary room - Enable/Disable member to create temporary room that will automatically delete when server restart.
• Enable max. login time - It's limit maximum login time of each member (minutes).
• Enable max. concurrent users - Enable/Disable the limitation maximum concurrent users in server to save server's resource (integer)
• Enable max. open room - Enable/Disable the limitation maximum open room windows for each connected user. (integer)
• Enable max. open private message - Enable/Disable the limitation the limitation maximum open private windows for each connected user.(integer)


6.3.1.2 Private chat style setting




Apply these values will take effect only the private chat window look & feel. And never affect to any room look & feel. Below are details of each configuration.
• Separator - Enable/Disable separator of private chat.
• Background image - Enable/Disable background image. About background image URL the format must look like this
  http://your_host:port/path/image.jpg
  or
  http://www.garaxi.com:8080/chat/images/background_1.gif
  or
  http://www.garaxi.com/chat/images/background_2.gif
  or you can use relative path like this
  
  images/background_2.gif
  
  *** Please note ,
  background images must located at the same physical machine of GaraxiChat applet that you installed on. It's the Java security restriction. You must follow this rule (Sun's rule) in order to use background image.
• User icon - Enable/Disable user icon
• Nickname/Message colors - Enable/Disable color. If you disable this option you must specify which color you intend to use in this room. It's very important because if you put the room's background image that look so dark. You need to disable font color and specify your own color like "white". In order to make people can read the message and confuse about too many colors in chat room.


6.3.1.3 Add/Delete banned IP for server




Ban new IP or zone of IP address
• Type IP address or zone of IP address that you want to ban from server at the text field "New ban IP" ie. 203.14.38.* or 86.49.205.143
• Press button "Add"
• Done.
Delete banned IP address
• Move the banned IP address that you want to remove from left side to right side
• When ready press button "Remove selected IP(s)"
• Done.


6.3.1.4 Add/Delete banned "registered member"




Ban member
• Type the registered member at the textfield "New ban member"
• Press button "Add"
• Done.
Delete banned member address
• Move the banned members that you want to remove from left side to right side
• When ready press button "Remove selected user(s)"
• Done.


6.3.1.5 Wall (Write message to all user) setting



Send messages or auto popup URL to every body on server (include yourself) by this options.
• Send messages - By type messages or paste your messages in text area and click button "Send message"
• Send popup URL - Type your given URL in textbox and click "Send URL"
6.3.1.6 Chat log setting
6.3.1.7 Registration




• License registration - Type your register name and paste the registration code from us.
• Thank you for help us improve this chat !



6.3.2 Create room
At rooms list page click "Create room".
6.3.2.1 General details
About general detail all required field is "Room name" and "Room topic"
6.3.2.2 Room's style


Apply these values will take effect only "this room" look & feel. It won't affect others room. Each room is separated style. Below are details of each configuration.
• Separator - Enable/Disable separator of private chat.
• Background image - Enable/Disable background image. About background image URL the format must look like this
  http://your_host:port/path/image.jpg
  or
  http://www.garaxi.com:8080/chat/images/background_1.gif
  or
  http://www.garaxi.com/chat/images/backgfound_2.gif
  
  *** Please note ,
  background images must located at the same physical machine of GaraxiChat applet that you installed on. It's the Java security restriction. You must follow this rule (Sun's rule) in order to use background image.
• User icon - Enable/Disable user icon
• Nickname/Message colors - Enable/Disable color. If you disable this option you must specify which color you intend to use in this room. It's very important because if you put the room's background image that look so dark. You need to disable font color and specify your own color like "white". In order to make people can read the message and confuse about too many colors in chat room.



6.3.2.3 Room's robot


• In each room you can enable/disable robot
• Robot is separated thread.
• When there're no one in room the robot will suspend and waiting for at least 1 user join the room in order to make robot come alive again. For save your server's resources.
• You can enable each message to sequentially display or randomly display.

6.3.3 Room moderator/Room owner mode
6.3.3.1 Room's moderator role
Room's moderator is the person who have access to do these functions in given room
• Kick member
• Ban IP of member
• Un ban IP of member
• Ban registered member
• Un ban registered member
6.3.3.2 Room's owner role
Room's owner possess every privilege of room's moderator plus the ability to configure room style. Because room's owner is the member that created the room so they be able to do.
• Enable/disable oom's separator
• Room's background image
• Room's background alignment
• Enable/disable room's user icon
• Enable/disable room's font color
• Define room's robot
• Kick member
• Ban IP of member
• Un ban IP of member
• Ban registered member
• Un ban registered member
6.3.3.3 Kick user from room
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• Kick user by select user in nickname list
• Press "RIGHT CLICK", it will pupup the popup menu.
• Choose "Kick user "username" from room"
Or
• Select user in nickname list
• Press button "Kick user"
6.3.3.4 Ban IP from room

- Ban IP address from chat room panel
• Select user in nickname list
• Press button "Quick menu"
• Choose menu "Ban IP from room"
- Ban IP address or zone of IP address from room by "Edit room" options.
• Go to "Room list" tab.
• Select the room that you want to edit.
• Press "Edit room" button.
• When the edit room dialog open choose tab "Banned IP(s)"
• Type the IP address or Zone of IP address that you want to ban at "New Ban IP" for ie. 490.203.22.* or 192.168.1.100
• Press "Add" button
  
• Done.
6.3.3.5 Ban registered member from room
- Ban registered member from chat room panel
• Choose registered user in nickname list (the nickname that has "under line").
• Press button "Quick menu" or select nickname and press "RIGHT CLICK"
• Choose menu "Ban member from room"
- Ban registered member from room by "Edit room" options.
• Go to "Room list" tab.
• Select the room that you want to edit.
• Press "Edit room" button.
• When the edit room dialog open choose tab "Banned Members(s)"
• Type the registered nickname and press "Add" button.
  
• Done.
6.3.3.6 Delete banned IPs from room
• Go to "Room list" tab.
• Select the room that you want to edit.
• Press "Edit room" button.
• When the edit room dialog open choose tab "Banned IP(s)"
• Select the banned IP that you want to delete from "Banned IP(s)" select box (left side) and use the control button to move your selected banned ip to the right side.
• When ready press button "Remove selected IP(s)"
  
• Done.
6.3.3.7 Delete banned registered member from room
• Go to "Room list" tab.
• Select the room that you want to edit.
• Press "Edit room" button.
• Select the banned member that you want to delete from "Banned Nickname(s)" select box (left side) and use the control button to move your selected banned nickname to the right side.
• When ready press button "Remove selected user(s)"
  
• Done.
6.3.3.8 Define room look & feel
• By click "Quick menu" in each room
• Choose menu "Edit room".
• Choose tab "Style"
• Enable/disable room's separator.
• Enable/disable room's background image.
• Enable/disable room's user icon.
• Enable/disable room's font color.
6.3.3.9 Define room's robot
• Go to "Room list" tab.
• Select the room that you want to edit.
• Press "Edit room" button.
• Choose tab "robot"
• Define your robot detail.
• Please note

6.3.4 Delete room
Select room and press "Delete". Done.

6.3.5 Create new user (create normal user or another Admin privilege user)

You can create new user to the system in case of
- You want to create the new "Admin privilege" account
or
- You want to create the new normal user and he/she become the moderator in each room.
You can create user by go to "Room list" tab, press button "Create user"
At the "User Type" option, choose "Admin user" if you want to create the new Admin privilege account
Or choose "Normal user" if you want to create the new normal user.

6.3.6 Invisible mode (hide yourself from all chatters)
Invisible mode ideally for chat monitoring, when you click the "Invisible mode" checkbox at toolbar.
All user in room can't see you online and you can do everything like the normal mode.

6.3.7 Users managements

Users managements can be done by choose tab "Users" as figure below.



You can search,order,edit,add and delete users as figure below.

6.3.8 Banner rotator managements




Banners managements can be done by press button "Server config" and choose tab "Banners". You can disable/enable each banner. Or you can randomly display banner or display it sequencely.

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