I sent a message to the blog page and am awaiting a reply. I will post any information I received. Thanks for the help and interest.

Tim

Well, here is the response I got from the blog. Can't say that I found it particularly enlightening but thought some of you might be able to make sense of it.

Tim


Hi timboone,
In the installation instructions above I was using:
/
/bin/Viewer-Deluxe.jar
/games/Samples.Pgn

You can have them placed in any folder in your Web space but make sure it’s been served properly. As an alternative, you may try out the steps in How to publish a chess game on your blog
Doing it that way allows you to combine your PGN with your HTML code, meaning less file maintenance. Also, you won’t need to bother about the APPLET tags or JAR upgrades.

Tim I got I working.

http://selkirklake.net/chess.html
Let me put the steps together and repost. I did it with the CC editor so I still need to try VSD.

Tim, Do you have CC editor?

That's great Eric! Can't wait to see the steps and, more importantly, whether you can get it to work with VSD. I don't have CC editor yet.

Thanks, Tim

I got it to work in VSD.
http://selkirklake.net/chess.html

I'm working out the steps for you.

Eric, The VSD Chess Master! Or do you prefer Yoda?

Tim, This is for inserting the chess game into VSD.

Open notepad and paste this code into it.




Now click "file" then "save as"
In the window that opens Type "Samples.Pgn" in the file name box.
Now below that line click on the "file save as type" box. Click on "all files".
You can save this wherever you like just remember later for adding it to VSD.

Close Notepad

Download the "Viewer-Deluxe.jar" file and save wherever you like just remember later for adding it to VSD.
http://chesstuff.googlecode.com/svn/bin/Viewer-Deluxe.jar

Open VSD
Click on "Edit" then "Add files".
Highlite the root folder and click "add folder" at the bottom left corner of the add files window.
Name this folder "bin"
Now click on the new "bin" folder you just created and click on "add files".
Browse to the "Viewer-Deluxe.jar" file that you downloaded earlier.

Highlite the root folder again and click "add folder" at the bottom left corner of the add files window.
Name this folder "games"
Now click on the new "games" folder you just created and click on "add files".
Browse to the "Samples.Png" file that you created in Notepad.

Now goto the page that you would like the chess applet to show on and paste this code into that page using the HTML tool.
Paste to the "Body HTML"


Now save and publish
You can look at the chess website for customizing the Pgn file to your liking.
Hope you have fun with it.

Yoda man!

The preview wont show in VSD so just publish the content to verify. I'll work out the directory structure needed to have the preview show in VSD later.

I was able to get the Applet to show in VSD preview mode by copying the bin folder that you create in VSD to the C : /.
I tried copying the games folder to C : / but get a permissions error. So the applet will show but you won't be able to play the game in preview mode.