Java(TM) Boutique - ScrollItUp - A highly configurable vertical scroller

<APPLET CODE="ScrollItUp.class" ARCHIVE="ScrollItUp.jar" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="153"> <PARAM NAME="bgcolor" VALUE="668899"> <PARAM NAME="scrollbgcolor" VALUE="000000"> <PARAM NAME="outlinecolor" VALUE="000000"> <PARAM NAME="fontcolor" VALUE="ffff00"> <PARAM NAME="hovercolor" VALUE="00ff00"> <PARAM NAME="linkcolor" VALUE="ff0000"> <PARAM NAME="brakes" VALUE="55"> <PARAM NAME="fontface" VALUE="arial"> <PARAM NAME="fontstyle" VALUE="plain"> <PARAM NAME="fontbold" VALUE="off"> <PARAM NAME="fontsize" VALUE="14"> <PARAM NAME="textfile" VALUE="test.txt"> <PARAM NAME="margin" VALUE="5"> Make sure that your browser is Java enabled... </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. Links can be inserted into the text at any point. 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: |TEXT,URL,TARGET| Links must also end with the "|" symbol, and there must be no spaces between the commas in the link text. TEXT can be as many words as you like. Words included in a link are not wrapped onto the next line, but can only take up one line. URL can be specified as absolute (http://www.pikeus.co.uk/index.html), or relative (index.html). TARGET 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. 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="outlinecolor" VALUE="ff0000"> This sets the color of the applet's outline, 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. <PARAM NAME="margin" VALUE="5"> This sets the size of the horizontal margin in the scroll screen, in pixels. If this parameter is left out then a default of 5 pixels will be used.