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Scrolling Text Applet Help File.

Copyright: Sirius Computer Consultants 1999. All rights reserved.
Author : Patrick O'Brien 3/6/99
Version: 1.1

General Description.
With this little Applet you will be able to display many pages of information in just one area of your webpage. In addition this Applet will give your web page a dynamic animated feel. The applet will automatically size itself to the available area given to it by the HTML form. (The WIDTH and HEIGHT of the APPLET tag.)

The following is the complete listing of the possible parameters that may be used to configure this applet. If any of the parameters are not present within the APPLET tag in your HTML form then the Applet will assume the default value, as indicated in the right hand column.

It is recommended that you look at the example HTML files provided in conjunction with the following table in order to understand fully how to use each parameter.

SIRtext Applet Parameters.
Parameter Name	Description	Range of Values	Typical Value	Default Value if Parameter not present
TITLE	The Tree Title	Text	This is the Main Title.
TITLEFONT	The number of the Font	1 - 10	1	1
TITLECOLOR	Title text color number	1 - 10	1	1
BGCOLOR	Background color number	1 - 10	1	1
BORDERWIDTH	The width in pixels of the Border	1 - 30	1	0
BORDERCOLOR	Border color number	1 - 10	2	1
SCROLLSPEED	Speed at which the Applet will Scroll the Text. The higher the number the faster the scroll.	0 - 100	70	97
DISPLAYTIME	This is the amount of time that the Applet will pause scrolling between each page of text.	0 - 1000	50	1
MAXLINES	The Maximum number of lines of text the Applet will attempt to read from the TEXTLINE parameter.	1 - 10000	30	1
TEXTLINE1	Font Number\|Color number\|Text Data
.	See Below for details of the TEXTLINE parameter
TEXTLINEn
FONT1	Font Definition	Type\|N,B,I\|size	TimesRoman\|B\|14	Courier\|N\|12
.		N - Normal	TimesRoman\|I\|12
.		B - Bold	TimesRoman\|BI\|14
FONT10		I - Italic
Color1	Color definition	Red Green Blue	255\|255\|255 (White)	255\|255\|255
.		0-255\|0-255\|0-255	0\|0\|0 (Black)	0\|0\|0
.			255\|0\|0 (Red)
Color10			255\|128\|0 (Orange)

The TEXTLINE Parameter.
Each line of text should be entered using a TEXTLINEn parameter, where n is the line number. So the first line will be entered with a parameter of TEXTLINE1, the second with TEXTLINE2 and so on up to a maximum line number which has been set by the MAXLINES parameter. (see above) This table should be viewed in conjunction with the example files in order to obtain a clearer understanding.
Description	Example Value	Explanation
Font	1	This specifies the font with which to display this line of text.
Text Color	1	This specifies the color of this line of text.
Text	A line of Text	This is the text for this line.

Here is an example of how the HTML should look with an explanation of each line on the right.
<APPLET CODE="SIRtext.class" WIDTH=150 HEIGHT=200>	The APPLET tag defining the size of the Applet and the Applet to use.
<PARAM NAME="TITLE" VALUE="My Title">	Set the Title to My Title
<PARAM NAME="TITLEFONT" VALUE="1">	This means use the font defined by parameter FONT1 for the title.
<PARAM NAME="TITLECOLOR" VALUE="2">	The number of the Color to use for the Title text.
<PARAM NAME="BGCOLOR" VALUE="3">	The number of the Color to use for the background.
<PARAM NAME="BORDERWIDTH" VALUE="1">	Set the width of the Border to 1 pixel, 0 means no border.
<PARAM NAME="BORDERCOLOR" VALUE="2">	Set the Border color to the Color defined by parameter Color2
<PARAM NAME="SCROLLSPEED" VALUE="70">	Set the Scroll speed to 70.
<PARAM NAME="DISPLAYTIME" VALUE="250">	Set the Display time to 250
<PARAM NAME="MAXLINES" VALUE="10">	Set the Maximum lines to 10
<PARAM NAME="FONT1" VALUE="Helvetica\|B\|14">	Define font 1 as Style=Helvetica, Size=14,BOLD
<PARAM NAME="FONT2" VALUE="Helvetica\|N\|10">	Define font 2 as Style=Helvetica, Size=10,NORMAL
<PARAM NAME="FONT3" VALUE="Courier\|B\|10">	Define font 3 as Style=Courier, Size=10,BOLD
<PARAM NAME="FONT4" VALUE="Courier\|B\|18">	Define font 4 as Style=Courier, Size=18,BOLD
<PARAM NAME="Color1" VALUE="150\|150\|150">	Define RGB for Color 1
<PARAM NAME="Color2" VALUE="0\|0\|0">	Define RGB for Color 2
<PARAM NAME="Color3" VALUE="120\|190\|190">	Define RGB for Color 3
<PARAM NAME="Color4" VALUE="150\|220\|220">	Define RGB for Color 4
<PARAM NAME="Color5" VALUE="0\|0\|0">	Define RGB for Color 5
<PARAM NAME="Color6" VALUE="90\|160\|160">	Define RGB for Color 6
<PARAM NAME="Color7" VALUE="247\|156\|57">	Define RGB for Color 7
<PARAM NAME="Color8" VALUE="27\|162\|67">	Define RGB for Color 8
<PARAM NAME="Color9" VALUE="248\|168\|77">	Define RGB for Color 9
<PARAM NAME="Color10" VALUE="255\|255\|255">	Define RGB for Color 10
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE1" VALUE="2\|2\|LINE 1">	Text for line 1 using font 2 and color 2
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE2" VALUE="1\|2\|LINE 2">	Text for line 2 using font 1 and color 2
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE3" VALUE="2\|8\|LINE 3">	Text for line 3 using font 2 and color 8
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE4" VALUE="2\|2\|LINE 4">	Text for line 4 using font 2 and color 2
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE5" VALUE="2\|2\|LINE 5">	Text for line 5 using font 2 and color 2
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE6" VALUE="4\|2\| LINE 6">	Text for line 6 using font 4 and color 2
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE7" VALUE="2\|6\|LINE 7">	Text for line 7 using font 2 and color 6
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE8" VALUE="1\|2\|LINE 8">	Text for line 8 using font 1 and color 2
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE9" VALUE="2\|2\|LINE 9">	Text for line 9 using font 2 and color 2
<PARAM NAME="TEXTLINE10" VALUE="2\|2\|LINE 10">	Text for line 10 using font 2 and color 2
</APPLET>	Then end APPLET tag.

Some Common Color Definitions.
Color	Red	Green	Blue
Black	000	000	000
White	255	255	255
Grey	128	128	128
Red	255	000	000
Orange	255	128	000
Yellow	255	255	000
Green	000	255	000
Blue	000	000	255
Purple	200	000	200
Brown	128	064	000

More on Defining Fonts.

Font Types - The different Type faces generally available are,

Courier
Dialog
Helvetica
Symbol
TimesRoman

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