VMaxFader Applet

Applet Usage Example:

<APPLET CODE="vmaxfader.class" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=200>
<PARAM NAME="AUTHOR"      VALUE="Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)">
<PARAM NAME="KEY"         VALUE="Free Version">
<PARAM NAME="DELAY"       VALUE="50">
<PARAM NAME="FADESTEPS"   VALUE="20">
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR"     VALUE="000040">
<PARAM NAME="BGIMAGE"     VALUE="bg.gif">
<PARAM NAME="BORDERCOLOR" VALUE="0000ff">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE0" 
 VALUE="TimesRoman,1,20|00ff00|url1.html|_top|Text for message 1">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE1" 
 VALUE="TimesRoman,1,10|ffff00|url2.html|_self|Text for message 2">
<PARAM NAME="URL"         VALUE="messages.txt">
</APPLET>

DELAY (optional)
is the delay (milliSeconds) per animation frame.

FADESTEPS (optional)
number of fading steps

BGCOLOR (requiredl)
background color in hexadecimal format, same as html hexadecimal colors but without # radix simbol.

BGIMAGE (optional)
image for applet background, if this image is smaller than the applet it will be tiled

BORDERCOLOR (optional)
On mouse over applet highlighted rectangle will appear if URL for message is specified. Omit this parameter if you do not want to use this option.

MESSAGEi and URL (optional)
This applet supports two ways to obtain messages: it can obtain messages from PARAM tags, and it can load messages from external file or from CGIscript. First, the applet obtains messages from PARAM tags and then if the URL parameter is specified it obtains messages from this location. Messages defined as parameters must be numbered from 0 without missed numbers. One can define as many messages as required. Messages in text file is in the same format as message values in param tag. Each row in text file(or text output of CGI script) corresponds to one message.
Message includes the following fields separated by '|' symbol:
fontsettings | messagecolor| url | windowname| messagetext

Fontsettins includes fontname,fontstyle,fontsizeseparated by commas.
One can use the following platform independent font names:

  • Dialog
  • Helvetica
  • InputDialog
  • Courier
  • TimesRoman

    • Fontstyle can be 0 for plain font, 1 for bold, 2 for italics and 3 for bold italics.

    url can be full or relative It's URL for the document to be opened on click at this message.
    If a linked document is not required for a message then you can leave this field blank, but at least with one space character.

    windowname lets you specify which window or HTML frame to display the document in
    _blank, _top, _self, _parent can be used as well as windowNamefor named window or frame in frameset.

    AUTHOR and KEY both are obligatory parameters. Please don't alter its values. The Free Version adds link back to my pages, if you want to get rid of this, please, follow registration instructions.