The Java Boutique: ScrollIt - Horizontal scrolling text applet

CONFIGURATION: ============== Width and Height can be set to desired specification. Text file layout... # comments can be included by prefixing with the pound sign, # these are ignored by the scroller. Normal text is displayed and scrolled text prefixed by the "|" symbol (press "shift"+"\") is the link text, which when clicked on will take you to the URL specified in the next line, eg: |CLICK HERE TO GO TO www.microsoft.com http:\\www.microsoft.com |CLICK HERE FOR A LOCAL FILE index.html NOTE: text links must always be followed by a URL! Blank lines are ignored by the scroller. Parameters include... <PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="ff0000"> This sets the background color, and should be entered as a hexadecimal value. If this parameter is left out then a default color of light-gray will be used. <PARAM NAME="scrollbgcolor" VALUE="ff0000"> This sets the color of the scroll area's background, and should be entered as a hexadecimal value. If this parameter is left out then a default color of white will be used. <PARAM NAME="fontcolor" VALUE="ff0000"> This sets the color of the scrolling text, and should be entered as a hexadecimal value. If this parameter is left out then a default color of black will be used. <PARAM NAME="hovercolor" VALUE="ff0000"> This sets the color of the URL link text when the mouse pointer hovers over a link, and should be entered as a hexadecimal value. If this parameter is left out then a default color of red will be used. <PARAM NAME="linkcolor" VALUE="ff0000"> This sets the color of the URL link text, and should be entered as a hexadecimal value. If this parameter is left out then a default color of blue will be used. <PARAM NAME="brakes" VALUE="5"> This sets the speed of the scroll, the higher the number, the slower the text will scroll. If this parameter is left out then a default value of 5 will be used. <PARAM NAME="fontface" VALUE="Arial"> This sets the font face to be used. Current available fonts are "TimesRoman", "Courier" and "Arial". If this parameter is left out then a default of arial will be used. <PARAM NAME="fontstyle" VALUE="italic"> This value sets the font to either 'italic' or 'plain'. If this parameter is left out then a default of plain will be used. <PARAM NAME="fontbold" VALUE="on"> This specifies if the text is displayed in bold, values accepted are 'on' or 'off'. If this parameter is left out then a default value of off will be used. <PARAM NAME="fontsize" VALUE="30"> This sets the size of the font in points. If this parameter is left out then a default of 16 points will be used <PARAM NAME="textfile" VALUE="test.txt"> Specifies the location and name of the text file to read information from. If this parameter is left out then a warning message will be scrolled. If the text file cannot be found, or is blank, then a spearate warning message will be scrolled. If the value is set to "off" then it will force the applet to read the text line from the "text" parameter. <PARAM NAME="text" VALUE="Text to scroll goes here..."> When the "textfile" parameter is set to a value of "off" then the applet reads from the "text" parameter. This scrolls the text specified, but does not support the other link features available within the text file script. <PARAM NAME="target" VALUE="_self"> Specifies which frame to load links into. Values can be: "_self" - loads into current window. "_parent" - loads into full current window if frames are used. "_blank" - loads into a new window. "framename" - loads into the name of the frame you specify. If this parameter is left out then a default of "_self" will be used.