VMaxSalute Applet

Applet Usage Example:

<APPLET CODE="vmaxsalute.class" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=300
>
<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="50">
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR"     VALUE="000040">
<PARAM NAME="BORDERCOLOR" VALUE="0000ff">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE0" VALUE="TimesRoman,1,20|00ff00|some.html|_top|first message text">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE1" VALUE="TimesRoman,1,30|ffff00| |_top|This message have no link, but at least 1 space character required">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE2" VALUE="TimesRoman,1,16|ff00ff| |_top|Use  to force message split">
<PARAM NAME="MESSAGE3" VALUE="TimesRoman,1,16|ffff00| |_top|Messages should be enumerated from 0.">
<PARAM NAME="URL"      VALUE="messages.txt">
</APPLET>

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

FADESTEPS (optional)
number of fading/traectory steps.

BGCOLOR (requiredl)
background color in hexadecimal format, same as html hexadecimal colorsbut without # radix symbol.

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

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

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

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

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

windowname lets you specify which windowor 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, don't alter it's values. Free Version add link back to my pages, if you want to get rid of this, please, follow registration instructions.