LinkScroll Applet

LinkScroll Applet

Yet another text scroller. This one scrolls an arbitrary number of text lines vertically and each can represent a link to another Web page. It also allows a target window or frame to be specified for each link and you can change the message that is shown in the browser's status area when the mouse is over the link.

Parameters

Name Format Description

delay
(optional) n Specifies time between display updates in milliseconds. Default is 25.

pause
(optional) n Specifies time, in milliseconds, that a link will be paused when centered in the applet area. Default is 2000.

fgcolor
(optional) color Specifies the text color. Default is black.

bgcolor
(optional) color Specifies the background color for the applet area. Default is white.

vlcolor
(optional) color Specifies the color used for links that have been visited. Default is #663399.

shadow
(optional) x,y,color
OR
x,y x and y specify the offsets of the shadow relative to the link text, color defines the shadow's color. By default, no shadow is drawn. If only the offsets are given the default color is lightGray.

border
(optional) n
OR
n,color n specifies the size and color of the border drawn around the edge of the applet. If n is less than one, no border is drawn. The default is no border. If only a size is given color will default to the value of fgcolor.

For the above parameters, color may be one of the following: black, blue, cyan, darkgray, gray, green, lightgray, magenta, orange, pink, red, white or yellow. Or you can specify an RGB hex triplet, e.g. #ffcc99.

font
(optional) name,style,size Specifies the font used for the link text. The defaults are dialog,plain,12.

For the font parameter, name may be one of: courier, dialog, helvetica, symbol or timesroman and style may be one of: bold, bolditalic, italic or plain.

You may define any number of links, numbered 1-n. For each link, specify the following:

link-i string The text to display for this link.

url-i
(optional) url
OR
url,target The url to link to when this area is clicked on. Optionally a target window or frame may be specified.

status-i
(optional) string The message to display in the status window in place of the link URL.

Files

Source: LinkScroll.java Class: LinkScroll.class

Name	Format	Description
delay (optional)	n	Specifies time between display updates in milliseconds. Default is 25.
pause (optional)	n	Specifies time, in milliseconds, that a link will be paused when centered in the applet area. Default is 2000.
fgcolor (optional)	color	Specifies the text color. Default is black.
bgcolor (optional)	color	Specifies the background color for the applet area. Default is white.
vlcolor (optional)	color	Specifies the color used for links that have been visited. Default is #663399.
shadow (optional)	x,y,color OR x,y	x and y specify the offsets of the shadow relative to the link text, color defines the shadow's color. By default, no shadow is drawn. If only the offsets are given the default color is lightGray.
border (optional)	n OR n,color	n specifies the size and color of the border drawn around the edge of the applet. If n is less than one, no border is drawn. The default is no border. If only a size is given color will default to the value of fgcolor.
	For the above parameters, color may be one of the following: black, blue, cyan, darkgray, gray, green, lightgray, magenta, orange, pink, red, white or yellow. Or you can specify an RGB hex triplet, e.g. #ffcc99.
font (optional)	name,style,size	Specifies the font used for the link text. The defaults are dialog,plain,12.
	For the font parameter, name may be one of: courier, dialog, helvetica, symbol or timesroman and style may be one of: bold, bolditalic, italic or plain.
You may define any number of links, numbered 1-n. For each link, specify the following:
link-i	string	The text to display for this link.
url-i (optional)	url OR url,target	The url to link to when this area is clicked on. Optionally a target window or frame may be specified.
status-i (optional)	string	The message to display in the status window in place of the link URL.
Files
Source: LinkScroll.java		Class: LinkScroll.class