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TickerLine


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Horizontal ticker with variable fonts, colors, and even sounds! Source is included.

Author's Notes:
A compact, one line news ticker with the following features:
- Written in "pure Java 1.0" and thus available problem-free on all Java enabled browsers.
- The characters are created using bitmap fonts, allowing you to create your own font.
- The characters can be displayed in different colors and on different backgrounds.
- The ticker text can be passed as a parameter or as a text file.
- You can specify various tones for any key stroke, space bar and enter.
- The sound output can be switched on or off through JavaScript or using a second applet.
- Source code is included.

How To Use:

  • Download TickerLine-en.zip (106KB)
  • Unzip with a compression utility.

    Java Source: available in download

    Sample HTML Source:

    <applet code=TickerLine.class name=Ticker width=369 height=44>
    	<param name=BackgroundColor value="#f5f5f3">
    	<param name=BackgroundImage value="TickerBackground.gif">
    	<param name=TickerFont      value="OCR.gif">
    	<param name=TickerDelay     value="250,1000">
    	<param name=TickerRect      value="14,14,341,18">
    	<param name=TickerUrl       value="TickerText-en.txt">
    	<param name=CharSound       value="Char.au">
    	<param name=SpaceSound      value="Space.au">
    	<param name=ReturnSound     value="Return.au">
    	<param name=EnableSound     value="no">
    		<img src="Background.gif" width=369 height=44
    			border=0 alt="BackgroundImage">
    </applet>
    

    Configuration: config.html

    Status: free

    Author: Rüdiger Appel

    Homepage: http://www.3quarks.com/Applets/TickerLine/index.html

    Upload Date: January 10, 2000

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