Community Building with ChatSpace Server Manual

To use your own skins in the applet, you must override the default skins path
setting in the Java Client.
To implement this override:
Add the parameter skinsPath to the Java Client parameter (.prm) file.
For example, name=skinsPath=images/skins
triggers the skins to be loaded from the c:\Program Files
\ChatSpace\Community Server\CSSrvr\Data\java\images\skins directory.
The skins path is relative to path where the applet is loaded.
Note, some skins are stretched either horizontally or vertically to fill up
available space, when the applet is resized.
Customizing Skins
You can create your own skins for your ChatSpace clients.
The ChatSpace Java Client user interface is designed to use a skin which is
composed of multiple graphic files positioned by the applet around its layout.
By default. the .gif files used in the skin are stored inside the Java archive
and are loaded automatically from there by the applet.
Figure 1 on page 72 provides a layout of the main applet window in which
graphic elements appear. The key listing the graphics’ file names follows in
Table 1 on page 72.
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