VMaxMultilangTicker

Scroller mode example Ticker mode example

Features

  • Unlimited number of messages loaded from external URL
  • Support for national encodings
  • Multiline messages and headings
  • Ticker and scroller modes
  • Flexible targeting.
  • Support for "javascript:" urls
  • Individual font and colors settings for each message

    • HTML code Example

    <APPLET CODE="vmaxmultilangticker.class" WIDTH="400" HEIGHT="100" MAYSCRIPT> <param name="CONFIG" VALUE="tickermess.txt"> <param name="ENCODING" VALUE="iso-8859-1"> <param name="STEP" VALUE="1"> <param name="DELAY" VALUE="20"> <param name="PAUSE" VALUE="1000"> <param name="FULLSIZE" VALUE="false"> <param name="BORDERCOLOR" VALUE="cccccc"> <param name="HBORDERCOLOR" VALUE="FF0000"> <param name="HBGCOLOR" VALUE="f0f0ff"> <param name="MBGCOLOR" VALUE="ffffff"> <param name="SEPARATOR" VALUE="|"> <param name="AUTHOR" VALUE="Virtual_Max (http://come.to/vmax)"> <param name="KEY" VALUE="Free Version"> </APPLET>

    Parameters

    CONFIG External file or CGI url to load messages. This URL is relative to applet codebase (directory where classes are located). Please use URL in relative form to avoid applet security restrictions.
    See messages file for details of file format.
    ENCODING Optional parameter. Default value is "iso-8859-1". This paramteter informs the applet about charset encoding of messages file. Supported set of encodings may depend on browser JVM version.
    STEP Animation step in pixels. Must be positive integer value. Each animation frame applets shift up content on specified amount of pixels.
    DELAY Delay time in milliseconds between animation frames.
    DELAY Pause time when current message reaches the top of applet area.
    FULLSIZE Boolean value TRUE|FALSE. If true applet create messages with the height equal to applet height, so when message stops when the area is completely filled (usual for tickers) If false, the applet creates messages of minimum height and shows as many messages as possible to fit in area (usual for text scrollers)
    BORDERCOLOR Color of message border. See colors
    HBORDERCOLOR Color of selected message border when mouse over message. See colors
    HBGCOLOR Header section background color. See colors
    MBGCOLOR Message section background color. See colors
    SEPARATOR Separator character for messages file. See messages file details
    AUTHOR Obligatory parameter, please don't alter it's value! It must always remains unchanged as in above example.
    KEY With value "Free Version" applet can be used free, but will add link back to my pages. To get rid of this link, please register applet.

    Messages file format

    Messages file contains one line for each message. Each line defines message parameters as a set of character separated fields. Default separator character is "|". Other than default, character can be defined with SEPARATOR param.
    Line contains following fields: 
     HeadingFontSettings | HeadingColor | HeadingText | Message FontSettings | MessageColor | Message Text | url | target
    FontSettings itself consists of 3 fields separated with space character: FontName FontStyle FontHeight.
    Java supports following platform independent fontnames aliases:
  • Dialog
  • InputDialog
  • TimesRoman
  • Courier
  • Helvetica FontStyle
  • 0 - plain
  • 1 - bold
  • 2 - italic
  • 3 - bold italic FontHeight is integer number in pixels.

    target fileld is the equivalent of <A ..> tag TARGET attribute. It can contain either name of frame/window as defined in frameset either one of predefined values _self, _top, _parent, _blank.
    url field is equivalent to <A ..> tag HREF attribute. URL is relative to document URL. One can use "javascript:someFunction()" like URLs to call javascript functions when message is clicked.
    Here is sample line of config: 
     Dialog 0 12| 000000 | Sample\nHeading | Dialog 0 10 | 0000ff | Sample message | some.html | _self
    Note: both heading and message text support \n characters combination as line breaks.

    Colors

    All colors are in hexadecimal RRGGBB format (same as HTML colors are) but without # symbol. Please use this color selector to pick colors of your choice. Then copy selected color values into applet params.
    Selected color:
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