VMaxScroller Applet

This is a simple and easy to use text scroller Applet with some additional capabilities: 
  • message Drag 
  • custom fonts and colors settings for each message, 
  • clickable messages
  • flexible targeting and highlighting messages on mouse over. 
  • Optionally applet can connect to specified URL to get additional messages from text file or from CGI output. 
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    Applet Usage Example

    <APPLET CODE="vmaxscroller.class" 
 CODEBASE="./"
 WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=300
>
<PARAM NAME="AUTHOR"   VALUE="Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)">
<PARAM NAME="KEY"      VALUE="Free Version">
<PARAM NAME="BGIMAGE"  
 VALUE="bg.gif">
<PARAM NAME="STEP"     VALUE="2">
<PARAM NAME="DELAY"    VALUE="50">
<PARAM NAME="ALIGN"    VALUE="RIGHT">
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR"  VALUE="000080">
<PARAM NAME="SPACING"  VALUE="10">
<PARAM NAME="URL"      VALUE="vmaxsrollermes.txt">

<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE0" VALUE="TimesRoman,0,20|ffff00| | | |
 Virtual_Max presents Applet
">
    <PARAM NAME="MESSAGE1" VALUE="TimesRoman,0,16|00ffc0| | | |
 This Applet combines two ways to obtain message texts.
 First it parses the list of messages specified as applet PARAMs.
 Than applet connects to specified URL to get the list of additional messages.
 Webmasters can use connection to CGI in order to add the latest news.
">
    <PARAM NAME="MESSAGE2" VALUE="TimesRoman,0,20|ff0000| | | |
 Clickable messages">
    <PARAM NAME="MESSAGE3" VALUE="TimesRoman,1,16|ffff00|00ff00|vmaxscrollermes.txt|_blank|
 Each message can be linked to some URL to be opened on click. 
 One can also specify target window name defined in frameset
 to show linked document, including
 predefined names such as: _top,_parent,_self and _blank.
 Click on this message to view the messages file.
">
    <PARAM NAME="MESSAGE4" VALUE="TimesRoman,0,20|ff0000| | | |Colors">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE5" VALUE="TimesRoman,1,16|ff00ff|ffff00| | |
 One can define color settings separate for each message. 
 Normal color and highlighted color 
 to be used on mouse over message. Font settings are also 
 separate for each message and include font name, style and size.   
">
    <PARAM NAME="MESSAGE6" VALUE="TimesRoman,0,20|ff0000| | | |Scrolling control">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE7" VALUE="TimesRoman,1,16|ffff00| | | |
 Press and hold mouse button. VMaxScroller freeze! 
 Try to Drag back message you missed.
 Click on message, new document will be opened.
 (in this example only message next after 'Clickable messages' 
 have linked document
 and is clickable)
 VMaxScroller have two parameters for controlling 
 frame rate and scroll step.
">
    </APPLET>

    Some explanations

    Parameter Description
    AUTHOR Obligatory parameter 
    Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)
    BGIMAGE URL for background image for this applet, I'd recommend to use non-interlaced .gif images. 
    BGCOLOR All Colors are in hexadecimal format 'rrggbb', same as HTML colors format but without # hexadecimal radix symbol. For example, for red color use: FF0000. 
    STEP and DELAY Animation control parameters, step in pixels and delay time in milliseconds per animation frame
    ALIGN Text alignment CENTER or LEFT
    SPACING Vertical Spacing between messages in pixels.
    URL Url of text file or CGI to load additional messages. Applet uses 'GET' method to get messages from this connection.
    MESSAGE0.. 
    MESSAGEn    		 Enumerated messages to be shown. Enumeration should starts with 0, and have no missed numbers. Message itself consists of several fields separated by '|' character, this fielads are: 
    FontSettings | TextColor | HighlightColor | linkURL | TargetFrameName | MessageText 

    FontSettings includes Fontname, FontStyle and FontSize separated by commas. 

    Java supports only few Platform independent 
    FontNames: 

  • Dilaog
  • Helvetica
  • TimesRoman
  • Courier
  • InputDialog

    • FontStyles. Use 
    0 - for Plain text 
    1 - Bold 
    2 - Italics 
    3 - Bold Italics 

    FontSize should be decimal integer. 

    TextColor and HighlightColor are hexadecimal color values 
    in RRGGBB format, same as HTML colors, but without # radix symbol. 

    LinkURL can be relative in terms of document context or absolute 

    TargetFrameName names defined in frameset can be used or one of the predefined names: 
    _top 
    _parent 
    _self 
    _blank 
     
    KEY Obligatory parameter. Key Free Version will add aditional link back to my pages, if you want to get rid of it, please, follow registration instructions.