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Well here is the little documentation, to make this applet running, there are 4 global parameters, the indexed message parameters and the text file where is located the contents of the Scroller.

The indexed  parameters are numbered from 1 to 200. For defining a parameter for a specific message, you just need to add the parameter number at the end of the parameter :

e.g. : the second message of the applet would be so defined:

<PARAM NAME="TEXT1" VALUE="Sample Text">

Global Parameters
DELAY Expressed in milliseconds, it defines the delay the screen will be refreshed
STEP The step parameter is expressed in pixels. It defines the smoothness of the animation. You should set this to 1, for the most visual effect.
FILE File containing the messages.
BCOLOR Defines the background color in Hexadecimal

Indexed  Parameters


FONT<1..300> Font to be used, 3 comma separated values : Font, Size, Style. 

The style can be :  'BOLD', 'ITALIC' or 'BOLDITALIC'

COLOR 4 Colors in hexadecimal separated by a comma. The two first colors are the text colors, normal and highlighted, the two other colors are for the background.
SHADOW Shadow used for text. 4 parameters. x - y displacement. Normal and highlighted color

Message  Parameters


the message parameters comes from a text file, each message has delimiter statements : BEGIN and END 

Example of Message :

BEGIN
SDATE=16/04/1999
DATE=20/04/2001
FONT=1
COLOR=1
DEC=1
URL=DDROLLERBANNER.HTML
TARGET=_top
TEXT=Read the online documentation
TIP=DOCUMENTATION
END

TEXT This the text being displayed in the scroller
TIP You can define a text to be displayed in the status bar when your mouse is over a specific message
URL This is the URL to be loaded on a mouse click
TARGET This is the target window where the new URL will be loaded
SDATE Start date for this message.
DATE End date for this message
FONT Font index to use 
COLOR Color Index to use
SHADOW Shafow index to use
DEC This defines how many pixels the message will vertically shifted. into the Applet window

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