TickerLine

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

Applet Index
(sorted alphabetically)
A B C D E F G H I J K
L M N O P Q R S T U
V W X Y Z #s

The Java Source
(applets w/source code)
A B C D E F G H I J K
L M N O P Q R S T U
V W X Y Z

How to Add Java Applets to Your Site

New on the Java Boutique:

New Review:

Time Management Made Easy with the Quartz Enterprise Job Scheduler
Why not just use the Java timer API? This open source scheduling API boasts simplicity, ease-of-integration, a well-rounded feature set, and it's free!

New Applet:

Reverse Complement
Reverse Complement is a simple applet that converts DNA or RNA sequences into three useful formats.