ImajeJen User's Guide

                     Copyright © 2000 Robert Thivierge

Note: This document is included in plain text format with ImajeJen and is
also available on-line at http://www.imajejen.com/UsersGuide.html.
ImajeJen's home page is located at http://www.imajejen.com.

System Requirements:

  1. The Java 2 Run-Time Environment, version 1.2 or better. Windows users
     should get it from Sun at
     http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/jre/download-windows.html.
  2. Enough hard disk space to make a complete copy of all of your images,
     plus an extra 50-100%.
  3. ImajeJen itself is takes less than 200K of hard disk space.

Installation:

This applies mainly to Windows 95/98 and NT. Other users should also read.

  1. Backup your entire computer before continuing.
  2. Download and install The Java Runtime Environment. For windows
     download it from
     http://java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.2/jre/download-windows.html. All
     you have to do to install it is double click on the file (which has an
     EXE extension), and follow the on-screen instructions (which just
     means click OK,Next, or Finish buttons). Now the Java Run-Time
     Environment should be installed.
  3. Create a new file folder (directory) called "C:\ImajeJen".
  4. If you have not already, download the file ImajeJen.zip from
     http://www.imajejen.com/ImajeJen.zip, save it in the folder
     "C:\ImajeJen". In your web browser, right-click on the previous
     highlighted text, and select "Save Target As..." or "Save Link As...".
     The dialog box that comes up will let you create and select the
     folder.
  5. Unzip the ImajeJen.zip file into this folder. You can use PKZip or any
     compatible program. Other programs you can use are WinZip and
     Info-Zip.
  6. ImajeJen is now installed. All you have to do to run it is
     double-click on the file "ImajeJen.jar".

Running:

  1. If this is your first time running ImajeJen, please test it out with a
     small collection of pictures at first.
  2. Close all other active programs. Save and backup all of your other
     work.
  3. Windows and Mac: Double click on the "ImajeJen.jar" file, which should
     be in the "C:\ImajeJen" file folder.
  4. UNIX: Start up X-Windows, change the directory to where ImajeJen.jar
     is located. Type in the command "java -jar ImajeJen.jar".
  5. Wait at least 10 seconds for the program to start. It is very slow to
     load.
  6. Select the folder (directory) containing your images by clicking on
     the "Source Folder" button. The dialog box that appears will let you
     choose a folder, while seeing what files are in each folder. You can
     also use this dialog box to preview any of the images in a selected
     folder.
  7. Now, click on the "Destination Folder" button to choose where you want
     generated pages and images to be placed in. Any pre-existing files in
     this folder may be overwritten by ImajeJen.
  8. Optionally, you may edit image descriptions by pressing the "Edit
     Descriptions" button.
  9. You can click the save button, if you want to preserve your layout
     changes.
 10. Click on "Generate" to create the web site.
 11. You will now see a warning about files that will be overwritten. Click
     OK to continue.
 12. A status dialog box will appear while ImajeJen generates your site.
 13. When done, select File/Exit to terminate the program.
 14. ImajeJen creates a new file in the Destination Folder, called
     "index.html". By opening this file in your web browser, you can access
     all pages and other files created by ImajeJen.
 15. All web pages have been created. You should be able to open a file
     called "index.html" in the destination folder, using your web browser.
 16. At this point, you may made need to transport (i.e. FTP) your files to
     your web server. When doing this, remember to only move the Target
     Folder, not the Source Folder. ImajeJen copies all files, so there are
     no references to the source images

After you create a web site, please go to the Gallery Submission Form at
ImajeJen.com. You can submit the URL of your web site, so it can be linked
to from ImajeJen.com.

Technical Details

The following is information on how ImajeJen was implemented in Java.
Normally users will not have to worry about these details.
 Object File Name                 ImajeJen.jar
 Main Class, which contains main()ImajeJen
 Main Class's Package             com.ImajeJen
 Qualified Main Class name        com.ImajeJen.ImajeJen
 Class Path                       ImajeJen.jar
 Java Version                     Java 2 Version 1.2.1
 Event Model                      AWT 1.1
 Program Type                     Application (not Applet)

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