SirTypeFree
| Typewriter Applet
Help File. |
Copyright: Sirius
Computer Consultants 1999. All rights reserved.
Author : Christopher O'Brien 20/8/99
Version: 1.0 |
General Description.
This applet is designed to give your web site an animated feel by cycling through an
unlimited amount of messages with a typewriter effect. The parameters allow you to
customise the text, fonts, colors and speeds of the effects. The applet will
automatically size itself to the available area given to it by the HTML form. (The WIDTH
and HEIGHT of the APPLET tag.).
The following is the complete listing of the possible parameters that may be used to
configure this applet. If any of the parameters are not present within the APPLET tag in
your HTML form then the Applet will assume the default value, as indicated in the right
hand column. The parameter names are case sensitive so where capital letters are used in
the examples you must use capital letters in your own HTML documents.
It is recommended that you look at the example HTML files provided in conjunction with the
following table in order to understand fully how to use each parameter.
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| Typewriter Applet Parameters. |
| Parameter Name |
Description |
Range of Values |
Typical Value |
Default Value |
Using multiple messages, sound and linking to other websites.
|
| Text |
The message that are displayed in the applet. The different messages must be separated with a | |
There is no limit, have as many messages as you want. |
"Welcome To Our Web Site|Click Here To Enter" |
"No messages have been put in the parameters" |
| Link (Only available in full version. Buy Full Version) |
A url where the viewer is taken when they click on the applet. If this parameter is not specified then the applet will not link to another web site. |
"http://anywebsite" |
"http://www.net800.co.uk/netstart/sirius" |
"none" |
| Sound |
This sound is played every time a letter is displayed. It must be an AU file(.au file extension) |
"anyfilename.au" |
"type.au" |
"none" |
Customising Colors, Font and Special effects. |
| BgColor |
Defines the background color of the applet. |
Red Green Blue "0-255,0-255,0-255" |
"0,0,0" |
"255,255,255" |
| FontColor |
Defines the text color. |
Red Green Blue "0-255,0-255,0-255" |
"255,255,255" |
"0,0,0" |
| Font |
Defines the font of the text. |
See Defining fonts at the bottom of this page. |
"TimesRoman" |
"Helvetica" |
| FontSize |
A number which defines the font size |
"8" to "200" |
"22" |
"12" |
| FontBold |
Specifies if the font is bold or not. |
"Yes" or "No" |
"Yes" |
"No" |
| FontItalic |
Specifies if the font is italic or not. |
"Yes" of "No" |
"Yes" |
"No" |
| TextAlignment |
Specifies if the text should be aligned to the left, centre or right. |
"Left" "Centre" "Right" |
"Centre" |
"Left" |
| AfterEffect |
Defines what happens to the text after it has been typed. |
"FadeOut" "ScrollUp" "Shrink" "NoEffect" |
"FadeOut" |
"NoEffect" |
Adjusting Speed and Timing. |
| AfterEffectSpeed |
Defines how fast the after effect is carried out. The lower this number the faster it is. |
"0" to "1000" |
"20" |
"30" |
| TypeSpeed |
Defines how fast the text is typed. The lower this number then the faster the text is typed. |
"0" to "1000" |
"100" |
"60" |
| TextHold |
Defines how long in milliseconds to display the text after it has been typed before it disappears. |
"0" to "1000000" |
"4000" |
"2000" |
| TypeWait |
Defines how long in milliseconds after the text has disappeared before typing the next line of text. |
"0" to "1000000" |
"2000" |
"0" |
| Defining Fonts |
Font Types - The different Type faces generally available are,
Courier
Dialog
Helvetica
Symbol
TimesRoman
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| Some
Common Color Definitions. |
| Color |
Red |
Green |
Blue |
| Black |
000 |
000 |
000 |
| White |
255 |
255 |
255 |
| Grey |
128 |
128 |
128 |
| Red |
255 |
000 |
000 |
| Orange |
255 |
128 |
000 |
| Yellow |
255 |
255 |
000 |
| Green |
000 |
255 |
000 |
| Blue |
000 |
000 |
255 |
| Purple |
200 |
000 |
200 |
| Brown |
128 |
064 |
000 |
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