VMaxTickerFile

New features:

  • Loading messages from external text file or CGI output.
  • Highlight on mouse over applet
  • Java Scripting capabilities
  • May 26, 2001 support for national encodings added

    • Applet usage Example

    <APPLET 
 CODE=vmaxtickerfile.class 
 WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=20 MAYSCRIPT
>
<PARAM NAME="AUTHOR" VALUE="Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)">
<PARAM NAME="BORDER" VALUE="true">
<PARAM NAME="BORDERCOLOR"   VALUE="000000">
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR" VALUE="ffffff">
<PARAM NAME="HIGHLIGHTCOLOR" VALUE="0000ff">
<PARAM NAME="HEADERBGCOLOR" VALUE="000080">
<PARAM NAME="HEADERSIZE"    VALUE="100">
<PARAM NAME="HEADERALIGN"   VALUE="RIGHT">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGEALIGN"  VALUE="LEFT">
<PARAM NAME="DIRECTION" VALUE="0">
<PARAM NAME="STEP" VALUE="2">
<PARAM NAME="TARGET" VALUE="_self">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE0" VALUE="TimesRoman 1 14 ffff00| VMaxTicker |TimesRoman 0 12 000000|Deliver Headlines to Your Pages|file1.html">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE1" VALUE="TimesRoman 1 14 ffff00| Adjustable |TimesRoman 0 12 000000| Fonts, and Colors |file2.html|_blank">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE2" VALUE="TimesRoman 1 14 ffff00| Configurable |TimesRoman 0 12 000000| Alignments, Move Direction and Step |file3.html">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE3" VALUE="TimesRoman 1 14 ffff00| Flexible |TimesRoman 0 12 000000| URLs and target window name |file4.html">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE4" VALUE="TimesRoman 1 14 ffff00| Download |TimesRoman 0 12 000000| it now! |license.html">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE5" VALUE="TimesRoman 1 14 ffff00| VMax's Cafe |TimesRoman 0 12 000000| Java applets and scripts |http://come.to/vmax">
<PARAM NAME="URL"      VALUE="vmaxtickerfile.txt">
<PARAM NAME="KEY"      VALUE="Free Version">
<PARAM NAME="RELOADTIME"    VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="DEALAY"        VALUE="100">
<PARAM NAME="FREEZE"        VALUE="1000">

</APPLET>

    Some explanations:
    This applet will first load messages specified as MESSAGE parameters, then it will connect to a URL (if specified) and load more messages from file or from CGI output. Each line of text file or CGI output have the same format as message parameter value. Most of parameters are obvious, but MESSAGE format needs to be explained. Messages should be enumerated from 0 to n, without missed numbers. If any number is missed, then the applet won't search for the next message. Message value includes several tokens separated by "|" character.

    "headerfontsettings|HeaderItself|messagefontsettinfs|MessageItselfHere|URLtoOpen|optional_targetname"

    or

    "headerfontsettings|HeaderItself|messagefontsettinfs|MessageItselfHere|URLtoOpen"

    Fontsettings consists of Fontname, FontStyle and FontColor (hexadecimal value without radix) separated by space character. You can use one of the following platform independent fonts:

  • Dialog
  • InputDialog
  • Helvetica
  • Courier
  • TimesRoman

    • targetname Is an optional way to overwrite the target frame name defined with TARGET param for this message, if it is omitted then one defined with TARGET param will be used.

    Fontstyle uses an integer number: 0 for PLAIN, 1 for BOLD and 2 for ITALIC (you can use 3 for BOLDITALIC)

    "KEY" and "AUTHOR" parameters are obligatory parameters. Free version of applet would add link back to my site. If you want to get rid of this link, please, follow registration instructions and register it for use at your site.

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