DancingText

Ideas for the DancingText applet originated from the NervousText applet which came with the Java Developers Kit. You must be using a Java-enabled browser such as Sun's Hotjava or Netscape Navigator 2.0x to view this Java applet. If you have a Java-enabled browser, and wish to see examples of DancingText now, click here.

DancingText has many improvements over the original NervousText:

o Variable Pitch Font
Character width is now taken into account when drawing the text. The result is more accurate spacing between the characters.
o Off-Screen Buffering
Off-screen buffering was used in DancingText to avoid flickering.
o Powerful Text Color
Option to customize color for the text. DancingText is able to use linear shading to blend colors between any two user specified bound characters.
o Background Color
Option to change the background to any color.
o Shadow
Option to turn on or off the shadow for the text. The color and offset of the shadow can also be altered.
o Font Properties
Options to choose different font name, font style, font size and spacing between characters.
o Dancing Properties
Options to configure the speed of the dancing and maximum dancing offset distance on both x and y-axis.
o Open an Uniform Reference Locator
Option to choose a URL to navigate to when mouse click on the applet window.

This applet is written with the final 1.0 Java applet API

Would you like to:
o View the user guide
o View examples
o View the source

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