CSC 241 Lab 1

HTML & Applets

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This lab is designed to get you set up for the web and running applets. In the process, you will learn to operate effectively in a SUN workstation environment. You may already have a webpage, or you may not. Either way, you need to make one for this course. Some of your programming assignments will have applet front-ends and you will make them accessible through this webpage. This should help me find your applets quickly when evaluating them or when helping you find your bugs. My 241 page will be linked to yours once you complete this lab.

Your web page for this course will consist of a header, title, a little text, and some links. Feel free to add things to it, but, please don't clutter it with graphics that don't relate to the course or use colors that make it hard to read on a workstation (i.e. a Purple background is NOT my favorite).

You will first create some directories, and set the needed protections to get things started. You will make some modifications to your Sun workstation environment. The next step is to fire up netscape and bring up this page. There are several links in this page that are only meaningful in a web browser. For example, part of the way into this lab, you will bring up a webpage that you will copy from and paste into an xemacs window which you will also have open at the time, effectively, creating your webpage with a few key strokes. I could have just given you the template to copy at the start, but, this is a good practice for handling multiple windows. This lab ends with you copying an applet and making it accessible from your page. Once you have completed all tasks, you will have a web page like 241.html.

Set up your workstation environment:

• You should be on a SunRay in the Snygg's basement lab or either of the CS labs (Snygg 103, 104).
• Make sure that the right side of the login window identifies the session type as Common Desktop Environment (CDE). If it doesn't:
  1. Click the Options button.
  2. In the menu that pops up, choose sessions.
  3. Pick Common Desktop Environment, which is the first choice there.
• Login to the workstation. Your Oswego's username/password will work here. If you are a transfer student, you will need to activate your Oswego computer account first. You should the following window at the bottom of the screen:
  
• Get rid of any other default window that may pop up, such as, the file manager or the help tutorial by Closeing them from their File pull-down menu.
• The following steps will save the current workspace settings and file manager and help tutorials won't load automatically each time you log in.
  1. Click on the arrow button icon above the Desktop Controls icon. Choose Desktop_Controls in the menu that pops.
  2. find and double-click the Window Style Manager icon in the Desktop Controls window that pops up. A Style Manager window will pop up along with one of its subwindows: Style Manager - Window.
  3. Activate point in window to make active. This allows you to move the mouse cursor into a window to activate it, instead of having to also click in its header. (You may want to adjust the others later on.)
  4. Activate Allow Primary Windows On Top as well.
  5. Select OK.
  6. Close all control windows.
• Select the arrow above the icon , the Following Menu will pull up: . .
• Click on Applications.
• Choose Desktop_Apps.
• Select Terminal from the Applications - Desktop_Apps submenu. Move the Terminal window to some place on your screen that you like.
• Close all windows except for the terminal window and the CDE control bar at the bottom of the screen.
• Select the Exit icon (next to the Four button) to log out. The next time you log in your screen should look just as you left it.

Login on a workstation and perform the following UNIX commands in your Terminal window:

Creating necessary directories

You need to be in your home directory.

1. mkdir public-html--You may already have such a directory.
2. mkdir public-html/classes
3. mkdir public-html/classes/csc241

Setting permissions

1. chmod og+rx .--don't forget the dot
2. chmod og+rx public-html
3. chmod og+rx public-html/classes
4. chmod og+rx public-html/classes/csc241

Netscape

• In the Terminal window type: netscape &. The "&" is important here as it starts netscape up as a separate subprocess leaving the Terminal operating.
• Click Accept when Netscape starts up; if you have started netscape on a workstation before, you won't have such a button to click.
• Bring up this lab by typing the following URL in the Location text area:http://www.cs.oswego.edu/~mohammad/241/labs/lab1.html
• Use the scroll-bar on the right of the window to get to this portion of the document. You shouldn't need the hard copy version from here on.
• For a few quick tips on HTML tags, you can follow the link to Basic HTML Tags, but return to this page to continue the lab.

Create 241.html

• get into your public-html directory.
  1. In the Terminal window, type cd to make sure you are in your main directory.
  2. cd public-html
• start xemacs by typing xemacs 241.html &
• We have set up xemacs to work in html-helper mode which starts you with a prompt for title name and generates a template of an html file . For the purpose of this lab, you give this page a dummy name to continue and delete the template that appears. Highlighting and clicking the scissor icon on top should accomplish that.
• In Your netscape window:
  1. Follow the link to sample.html.
  2. Starting from the line that has <html>, highlight the content of that page.
  3. From the Edit pull-down menu, pick copy.
• Now, move your pointer into your xemacs window and press the Paste button on your KEYBOARD.
• change all occurrences of jdoe with your account name and all occurrences John Doe with your full name.M-x replace-string could come in handy here. M- implies you hit the Esc key, not hold it down before you hit x.
• Once your page is completed, save it(control-x,control-s).

Make your page accessible to others

The following will take place in your Terminal window:

• ls--(you should see "241.html" listed)
• chmod og+rx 241.html
  Note: any subsequent files added to public-html or its subdirectories must also have the permissions changed by using the chmod command, if you want them to become accessible through the Web. However, do not change permission on your .java files, if they are intended for this course.

Testing your page

Type the URL http://www.oswego.edu/~your user name/241.html in the Location text area of your netscape window. Your page should load up in all its glory! Return to the lab1 page.

Make an Applet

I am assuming that you are in your public-html directory in your Terminal window. pwd is the unix command that tells you where you are. Type each of the following commands:

• cp /csclass/mohammad/public-html/hello1.java . -- don't forget the dot
• cp /csclass/mohammad/public-html/hello1.html . -- don't forget the dot
• javac hello1.java to compile hello1.
• chmod og+rx hello1.html to make the html file accessible.
• chmod og+rx hello1.class to make the .class file accessible.

Simply, go back to your 241 page and click on the hello1 link there. The Applet should load up.

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