Cabri Java Project

How to Publish Cabri figures on the Web

Read this complete handbook or follow these steps :

1. construct your figures with Cabri-géomètre II (not Cabri 1...) with MacOS, Windows or DOS version
2. come back often on these pages for good news and new version... (date of last modification at end of page)
3. for local testing on your computer, get the latest version of CabriJava.jar file by this link or by specific links relative to your OS at bottom of the homepage and put it in a folder of your choice. CabriJava .jar file contains all the java-code of CabriJava applet in a compressed form (java archive).This file will be transfered on your Web server to publish your final work (transfer also figures in binary mode, if your file contains special characters like accents or degree ° sign). You can refer to the CabriJava.jar file as an unique archive on your server for all your site with a CODEBASE parameter like this (by example in our official site) CODEBASE="/cabrijava" (in cabrijava directory at root of our web server)
4. with a text editor or a HTML editor add some tags like these in your HTML file
   <APPLET CODE="CabriJava.class" archive="CabriJava.jar" WIDTH=600 HEIGHT=400 >
   <PARAM NAME=file VALUE="figures/3D/Escher.fig">
   <PARAM NAME=lang VALUE="en">
   <PARAM NAME=border VALUE=3>
   <PARAM NAME=background VALUE="images/1998.jpg">
   </APPLET>
   Only red tags are required. APPLET tag is described in the Java Tutorial from SUN at this page.
5. this step can be done by the CabriWeb applicationwhich allows you to generate automatically HTML file with choose of figure, dimensions, positions, backgroud color or images, animations, traces... You have just to edit the produced HTML file to add some text around applet tag or to copy <APPLET> tag in another HTML file located in the same folder (for files access paths considerations) More explanations and access to the first beta release of CabriWeb at this page.
6. CabriJava parameters allowed at this time are in a condensed form :
   

   Parameter Name	Kind of Value	Description
   file	URL or string (zipfile required)	Cabri II figure file (standard file or zipped file like x.zip)
   lang	string	'cz', 'de', 'es', 'en', 'fr', 'it', 'nl', 'nn', 'no', 'pl', 'pt', 'sk' or 'sv': language of cursors and messages
   zipfile	URL	Zipped archive of Cabri II figures
   background	URL	GIF or JPEG image displayed as background
   bgcolor	int	color of uniform background as #RRGGBB (default white)
   border	int	width of border (default 1)
   bordercolor	int	color of border as #RRGGBB (default black)
   controller	boolean	controller allowed (default true)
   autocontrol	boolean	display of controller at start (default false or true if step specified)
   trace	string	choice of objects to trace their paths in moves as "point 12" *
   spring	string	description of animation springs as "segment 15 pos 82,92 size 7,19 " or "point 5 size -14,-12 " *
   step	string	last object to display at start as "point 12" *
   loop	boolean	constructive step by step animation (default false)
   xposition	int	horizontal shift of figure (in pixels, positive to right)
   yposition	int	vertical shift of figure (in pixels, positive to down)
   opaque	boolean	opaque color filling of polygons or circles (default false)

   
   * these values are displayed on option or alt clic on objects or springs. Multiples springs or traces must be written in the same parameter.
7. test your work locally or from your Web server with good tools :
   • Internet Explorer 4.5, 5.0 or 5.5 on Windows
   • Internet Explorer 4.5 or 5.0 or iCab with Apple MRJ 2.2.3 on MacOS (choose Apple MRJ in Java IE Preferences)
   • Hotjava from Sun or Netscape 4.7 on Unix or Linux

Many comments or bug reports are appreciated : don't hesitate to send to us your remarks or wishes.