Top Scroll Instructions

If you use this applet on your page, you should create a link back to my page, using the address: www.geocities.com/elricsgsx and the image should be elrilink.gif provided in this archive. The full agreement and additional information is available at the web page (link above).

How to add the applet to your page

Download the zip file below, and expand it into your html directory.
Adding an applet to your page is very simple, if you are using front page, you can add an applet from the menu. The menu you use in Frontpage is Insert > Advanced > Java Applet, other packages have similar dialogs. In the worst case you can add the applet directly to the HTML, an example of the HTML is shown below
The applet source is TopScroll.class set the code setting to this value
Edit the textfile scrolltext.txt and choose or create a font. Scrollfont.gif and scrollfont1.gif are provided.
Using the table of parameters below, add parameters to the applet to configure it

Table of Parameters

Parameter Name	Description	Example
TextFile	The first (main) image to display in the cycle, this is the image that will be delayed for a few seconds.	car.gif
ImageName	The secondary image to display in the cycle. Usually this will read "click me" or something similar	click.gif
FontWidth	The .AU sound to play when the mouse enters the button area	bipsound.au
FontHeight	The .AU sound to play when the mouse is clicked	camera.au
Speed	The back colour (if no image is selected using ImageBkCol), gray, black, red or white	white

Generating the Scroll text file (scrolltext.txt is the default)

Firstly be sure to generate the file only using upper case letters, you can add as many new-lines as you wish, it will skip past them. The following table has all the combinations:

A - Z	Standard letter always must be in upper case
0 - 9	Numbers
. , ! ? :	Punctuation
` '	Speech marks open and close
{ }	Smiley face and (C) symbol
+ -	Add and Subtract symbols
@	The @ Symbol
/ \	Both Slash symbols.

Creating a font file (scrollfont.gif and scrollfont1.gif are defaults)

By default there are two font files provided with the applet, you can generate additional font files, they MUST be of fixed width, its also better to make the letter widths in steps of 10 (ie 20,40,50). To generate the file you can use any paint package, be sure that the font does not exceed unique 256 colours. You should model the font letter locations using one of the example fonts provided.

If the fontsize was 50x50, the first letter in the font will begin at location (0,0). The next letters in the font would be at (50,0) (100,0)... incrementing by the font width every time, the font contains 50 letters.

Example of what the HTML looks like

<applet code=TopScroll.class width=640 height=40 > <param name="Speed" value="5"> <param name="textfile" value="scrolltext.txt"> <param name="imagename" value="scrollfont.gif"> <param name="fontwidth" value="20"> <param name="fontheight" value="20"> </applet>