jBoom
Special features
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jBoom
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Special Features
Text formatting
Program parameters
Start from the browser
Text formatting
Names of folders and bookmarks may be formatted - to some extent - by HTML tags. To enable this, let the name begin with the sequence <html>. The HTML support is rather modest, to say the least. Setting foreground and background color, font weight and slant is unproblematic. However, you shouldn't increase the character height or insert line breaks, as the height of the tree entry will not be adjusted. Instead, parts of the line would become invisible.

Example: The name is given as

<html><strong>My <font color="red">jBoom</font> bookmarks </strong>
The text will then appear like this:
My jBoom bookmarks
It is also possible to insert small images into the text, using the <img>-Tag. The same as above applies here: The height of the graphic shouldn't exceed the height of the line (about 16 pixels).

Example: A folder name is entered as

<html>Java <img src="http://monoped.de/jboom/java.png">
The entry will then look like this:
Program parameters
To start the program on a command line, enter the command
java -jar jboom.jar -c configuration
The parameter configuration denotes the configuration file to use. It can have one of the following formats:
  • Path to a local file.

  • Path to a file accessible via FTP in the form ftp://user:password@host/path.

  • Path to a file accessible via SSH in the form ssh://user:password@host/path.

  • A single hyphen means that no configuration file will be used. Connection settings must then be entered at the beginning of each session.

  • If the parameter -c configuration is missing completely, the file jboomcfg.xml in the user's home directory will be used.
For the applet, the applet parameter config is used instead of -c:
<applet code="org.sourceforge.jboom.JBoomApplet.class" archive="jboom.jar" width="220" height="420">
<param name="config" value="configuration">
</applet>
Start from the browser
If the browser handles .jnlp files correctly (i.e., connects them with javaws), a remote jBoom program may be started from the browser instead of issuing a javaws command. Simply enter the URL of the corresponding .jnlp file into the browser's address field.

However, whether that works also depends on the server configuration. If the program doesn't start, and you see the text of the jnlp file on the screen instead, try creating a file .htaccess in the server directory containing this line:

AddType application/x-java-jnlp-file jnlp
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