
HOT NEWS TICKER	

Applet Tag Example:
 
Open your HTML source file with any TEXT editor, cut'n'paste following code 
to your HTML source between <BODY> and </BODY> tags of HTML document. 
You also will need to copy hotnewsticker.class and hotnewsticker.txt files to
the same directory as well as all images you will use in the applet. 

<APPLET CODEBASE="./" CODE=hotnewsticker.class WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=20 MAYSCRIPT>
<PARAM NAME="DELAY"       VALUE="50">
<PARAM NAME="PAUSE"       VALUE="1000">
<PARAM NAME="STEP"        VALUE="5">
<PARAM NAME="FONT"        VALUE="Dialog, 1, 10">
<PARAM NAME="URL"         VALUE="./hotnewsticker.txt">
<PARAM NAME="BORDERCOLOR" VALUE="808080">
<PARAM NAME="HCOLOR"      VALUE="0000ff">
<PARAM NAME="TARGET"      VALUE="_self">
<PARAM NAME="XOFFSET"     VALUE="10">
<PARAM NAME="KEY"         VALUE="Free Version">
<PARAM NAME="AUTHOR"      VALUE="Virtual_Max (http://vmax.netfx.com)">
<PARAM NAME="DIRECTION"   VALUE="UP">
</APPLET>

Applet Parameters description: 
DELAY and PAUSE are animation control parameters: frame shift delay and pause 
between two messages. Both times are in milliseconds. 

STEP is shift step in pixels 

FONT include FontName, FontStyle and FontSize in pixels. You can use one of 
the following
FontNames: "TimesRoman","Dialog","Helvetica","Courier", FontStyles: 0-plain, 
1-bold, 2-italics, 3-boldItalics. FontSize is font size in pixels. 

URL. Applet loads messages from external text file. The URL parameter is URL 
of this file. This file has a very simple structure, using "|" character as 
separator. 

./im1.gif  |some1.html |0000ff |ffffff |This is first message
./im2.gif  |some2.html |000000 |c0c0c0 |Message number 2
           |some3.html |ffff00 |808080 |Message without image
./im3.gif  |some4.html |00ffff |404040 |One more message
./im4.gif  |           |00ff00 |000000 |Message without link
./im4.gif  |JavaScript:demo()|00ff00 |000000 |JavaScript call

Each line of this text file corresponds to one message in applet. 
Line starts with image URL, note that some subsets of JPG images can cause 
problems, please use non-interlaced GIF images only. Image URL is followed 
by document URL, this can be URL in full or relative form, but in addition it
supports JavaScript here. If this field starts with "JavaScript:" than the
following statement will be evaluated as a JavaScript statement.  In conext 
of current window oblect. Next two tokens are COLORS for text and background, 
colors are in hexadecimal format rrggbb, without # symbol, this number is 
actually numbers for each out of 3 main color components red, green and blue, 
2 chars for each component. If you are confused with colors,  use HotButton 
wizard to pick the colors hex values from the color picker table. Last 
parameter is message text. 

BORDERCOLOR and HCOLOR are colors for applet border in passive state and for 
mouse Over, these colors are in the same format as colors in .txt file. 

TARGET actually the same as <A HREF=".." TARGET="framename"> tag TARGET 
attribute. If you are not sure what it is and how to use it, then don't 
change the parameter, "_self" means open document in current window or frame. 
One can also use _blank, _parent or _top reserved names. 

XOFFSET is a distance in pixels between image right edge and text. 

DIRECTION can be one of the following: UP, DOWN, RIGHT or LEFT UP/DOWN 
scrolls all, including image, RIGHT acts as typewriter and LEFT scroll only 
text like marquee. 

KEY 
One can use the applet ABSOLUTLY FREE with Key "Free Version" this will add 
'Get Free Copy' message linked to Virtual Max Software site. If you want to get rid
of this additional link, you should register the applet and you will get the 
KEY which will unlock the applet for your server and would remove this
additional message. 