Copyright (c) 2000 By Goodwin Software

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Introduction

Ticker Tape  is a java applet that can be used to add a scrolling line of text your webpage. Figure 1 illustrates Ticker Tape  in use.

Ticker Tape can be sized to whatever dimensions you require. All colors are configurable and the time delay between scrolling the letters is configurable.

Using Ticker Tape

To use the Ticker Tape  applet on a webpage, you must edit the page's HTML code to include a applet tag like the following:

<applet code="TickerTape.class" width="300" height="40">
<param name="tickerline" value="Goodwin Software makes great little Java applets and a lot more!">
</applet>

The other configurable parameters that Ticker Tape recognizes are presented in the following table:
 

name	value	default value
delay	Number of milliseconds to delay between scrolling lines.	200
outborder	Color of the scroll window's outmost border.	0xCCCCCC
middleborder	Color of the scroll window's middle border.	0x000000
innerborder	Color of the scroll window's innermost border	0xCCCCC
textbackground color	Color of the text's background.	0x000000
text color	Color of the text.	0x00FF00

Once you've created the webpage simply upload it and the file TickerTape.class to your website.