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Scroll Applet
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by John Morris

There are three steps to setting
up the Scroll Applet.

1. Create a text file with the text you want the scroller to
scroll.  The contents of the file should contain both text and
settings.  Settings are in the form:
attribute = value
and are listed and described below.  When you add an attribute
line all the text following it has the attribute unless it is
specifically changed (with the exception of "url" which only
holds true for the first line of text to follow it).
Text is any line that does not contain a "=" in it and will
be displayed as text in the scroller.

The following attributes need only be added to the text file
once.  If they are added more than once the last value they
will be the last value they are assigned.

Attribue	Value
--------	-----
background	any valid RGB color (ex. 255,255,255 would be white)
pause		ON or OFF
grab		ON or OFF
link		any valid RGB color
frame		any valid frame name
speed		any number from 0 to 100,000

The following attributes can be changed after every text line
though they need not be if you want the text line to have the
same attributes as the text line before it.

Attribute	Value
---------	-----
name		any valid font name (ex. "Verdana"
style		any valid font style ("normal","bold","italic","both")
size		any valid font size
color		any valid RGB color
url		any valid url
center		ON or OFF

*Remember, while setting any other attribue leaves the attribute the
same for any text after it until it is changed again, a url is only valid
for the first text line to follow it.  URL's can be relative or absolute.

A special feature: adding a text line with only a "-" in it will result in
a horizontal line being drawn in the current color.  Adding any other text
other than "-" to a line will result in the text being displayed with the
"-" instead of a horizontal line.

If any of this is confusing look at the "scroll.txt" file that's included.

2. Add the following html tags to the html of the web page on
which you want Scroll Applet to appear:

<applet width="200" height="200" code="ScrollApplet.class">
  <param name="Created by John Morris - www.javaplayground.com" value="void">
  <param name="file" value="scroll.txt">
</applet>

The "width" and "height" values of the <applet> tag
can be whatever you want.  The "file" value should be
the path and name of the text file relative to the folder
of the web page (if you put the text file in the same folder
as the web page then this should simply be the name of
the file).  You MUST include the author <param> tag for
the scroller to work.

3. Place "ScrollApplet.class" in the same folder as the
web page.


Some of this is probably confusing to take a look at the provided
"scroll.txt" for examples.

John Morris