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Portal
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by John Morris

Installation:

1.  Create a text file which contains
all the text and configurations for the
applet.  Below is a list of configurable
parameters with their valid values:

Name		Value
----		-----
background	any valid RGB color
foreground	any valid RGB color
fontcolor	any valid RGB color
shadowcolor	any valid RGB color
fontsize	any valid font size
fontname	any valid font name
fontstyle	"none","italic","bold" or "both"
speed		0 (fastest) - 5 (slowest)

The format for setting a parameter is:
name = value
Any line in the text file without a "=" in it
will be treated as text and displayed.

This may be a little confusing so the best
thing to do is start with the sample text
file "portal.txt" and play with it until
it looks the way you want it to.

2.  Add the following html to the
html of the page on which you want
Portal to appear:

<applet width="200" height="100" code="Portal.class" archive="Portal.jar">
  <param name="created by John Morris - www.javaplayground.com" value="void">
  <param name="file" value="portal.txt">
</applet>

You can make the height and width
anything you want but the <param>
tag with the author information must
appear EXACTLY as it is above for the
applet to work.

3.  Place "Portal.jar" and your text file
in the same directory as the page to which
you added the above html tags.

This applet is free if you add a link to my page:
www.javaplayground.com
on the page which is using the applet.

John Morris