webScroller 1.22

Welcome to the world of webScroller - the best way to add dynamic visual appeal to your web pages, weather it be buisness or personal.

This file contains important information.

IMPORTANT: Yuo may use this software as provided for a maximum of 30 days after installation, after that you must either order it or remove it from your and every other system it has been installed on.

• Ordering Information
• Installation Instructions
• Documentation
• Tags
• Tutorials
• Source Code
• Version
• Support

Ordering Information

The full version of this software which includes features such as:

• Personal additions added to software.
• Free product updates for the life of product.
• Multiple multi-directional scrolling inline images - with embedded URL links so users can click on them.
• Multiple multi-directional scrolling inline URL's with embedded links.
• Multiple multi-directional scrolling backgrounds with embedded links.
• New features being added all the time through user requests.
• Fully optional control panel support.
• Full audio support.

can be ordered by either contacting us or by coming to our internet home-page and ordering there by secure credit card transaction.

Installation Instructions

To use this applet, simply put the webScrollerDemo.class file in the same directory as your html files that use it, or alternatively you can use the codebase tag in the applet header.
NOTE: If you use this demo applet on your web-page/s, you must notify us via email.

Documentation

webScroller is so simple to use that all that most people require in the way of documentation is the tags and tutorials below, however if you have any further questions don't hesitate to contact us.

Tags

• TEXT - the text to be displayed scrolling in the message, can be any length.
• IMAGE - the gif or jpeg image to be the background.
• LOOP - the time the message takes to loop around once it has finished, this number is in milli-seconds.
• FONT - the font to use for the message, possible values here are: Dialog, Helvetica, TimesRoman, Courier, Symbol.
• FONTSTYLE - the style, can be ITALIC, BOLD, PLAIN
• FONTSIZE - the size of the font.
• FPS - the target speed of the animation - in frames per second.
• STARTX, STARTY - the start position of the text in pixels.
• SCROLLX, SCROLLY - the amounts to move the text each frame - see color below.
• FOREGROUND - the foreground color, ie. the text color - see color below.
• BACKCOLOR - the background color.
• URL - the URL that the browser jumps to when the user clicks the applet.
• EFFECT - can be ommited , or can be SHADOW or UNDERLINE.
• SHADOWCOLOR - the shadow color - see color below.
• SHADOWX, SHADOWY - the shadows offset color from the main text.
• URLnum - where num is 0, this is the text that appears for the link.
• URLnum_X, URLnum_Y - URL num's start position in pixels.
• URLnum_COLOR - the URL num's color - see color below.
• URLnum_DX, URLnum_DY - the scrolling values for the link in pixels per frame.
• IMGnum - where num is 0, this is the name of the gif or jpeg image.
• IMGnum_X, IMGnum_Y - start position for this image.
• IMGnum_DX, IMGnum_DY - the scrolling values in pixels per frame of this image.

color - colors can be set in two different ways, RGB and name.

• name: simply the name of the color, can be of these: BLACK, WHITE, BLUE, RED, CYAN, DARKGRAY, GRAY, LIGHTGRAY, GREEN, MAGENTA, ORANGE, PINK, YELLOW.
• RGB: colors are entered as 9 digits, the first three digits are a number from 000 to 255 and are the amount of red in the color, the second three digits are also a number from 000 to 255 and are the amount of green in the color, and the last three digits are from 000 to 255 also, and these measure the amount of blue in the color. eg. 000255000 would be bright green, 050050050 would be a dark gray, 255255255 is white and 000000000 is black.

Tutorials

You can check out the following tutorials by simply clicking on the link to each of them , to see the source applet code that was used in the html file to create the effects seen, simply open the files(tutorial1.html, tutorial2.html, tutorial3.html) in a text editor.

• Tutorial 1
• Tutorial 2
• Tutorial 3

Source Code

Source code is available on request from the Interactive Applications home page.

Version

This is version 1.22 of webScroller, check our home page reguarly for updates, registered users of the full version get free lifetime updates of the product.

Support

If you would like free support for this demonstration version of webScroller, then please send us the following information to register as a user.

• Name
• Organization
• email address
• Platform, operating system and version
• Planned use of this product

General support requests/error reports or requests for features to be added to this product should be sent to us, alternatively you can fill in our feature request form on our web page.

Interactive Applications N.Z.
37A Beresford Street
Bayswater
Auckland 9
New Zealand

Phone: +64 (9) 445-6565

email: mstokes@ihug.co.nz