Java IRC Client Help on Advertising
Note:
To post ad, you must use a special nick name defined by a site administrator.
In addition, posted ads can only be seen by other people in the room.
(i.e., the person who posts the ads won't be able to see the ads posted).
Therefore, you need to run two clients to test the ad functions.
- Prepare Ads for room: select a room that you want to post Ads.
The choice 'All rooms' means all rooms you are in, not all rooms on the server.
- Ads posting frequency: when the 'Manually' is selected, the ads
will only be posted by the administrator manually (one at a time).
Otherwise, all ads in the list will be posted at the selected time
interval (auto mode). The time between posting each ad is 5 seconds
in the auto mode.
- Ad text entry (required): the text in this entry will be displayed
in the ticker of users in this room when posted. Example: Solutions
for a small planet (IBM). Ads with exactly the same text will be
displayed only once.
- Ad image URL: Display an image for an Ad. When image is available,
the ticker will display the image instead of displaying the text.
Example: http://www.ibm.com/ibm_logo.gif. Make sure your images
are of proper height to fit the height of the ticker.
- Associated URL: when users click on an ad in the ticker, this URL
will be displayed in a separated browser (launched automatically).
Example: http://www.ibm.com/.
Note: this function works when you run the applet through a
browser. Appletviewer won't work for this feature.
Buttons:
- Replace/Add: Replace an existing ad in the list (if one is selected),
or add a new ad into the list (none is selected).
- Delete: delete the selected ad in the list.
- Clear list: delete all ads in the list.
- Post selected: post the selected ad to users in the selected room
(manual mode).
- Remove from ticker: remove the selected ad from the ticker.
- Remove all: remove all messages from the ticker.
- Load from URL: if you prepare ads in a text file, which can be served
from a web server, ads can be loaded into the list. The format of the
off-line prepared ads is: Ad text\\URL to display when ad been clicked\\URL of an image (all URLs have to be fully qualified).
- Done: finish ad work. Close the window and automatic advertising functions stop.