(R561) Modify TickerTape Applet

I acquired this TickerTape applet from:

     Copyright (C) Mariappan Asokan 03/27/1997
     URL:   http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/2583
     email: masokan@worldnet.att.net

You can read the copyright restrictions (basically it only restricts commercial use) by looking at the first screen of his TickerTape.java source. You can get all of the necessary components either from his site (it comes in "zip" format) or from my directory: ~larryg/public_html/Java/ . The components that you need are:

The source for TickerTape.java
The source for TickerTapeApplet.java
The class file TickerTape.class (which you can either create using "javac" or copy from my directory or extract from his "zip" file)
The class file TickerTapeApplet.class (which you can either create using "javac" or copy from my directory or extract from his "zip" file)
A "starter" or template TickerTapeApplet.html

As explained in the previous two applets, you do this as follows:

Acquire the necessary files: Let us make this concrete by assuming that you will copy these files from a subdirectory named Java in my public_html to a subdirectory named Java2 in your public_html directory. You do so as follows:
- Create the Java subdirectory inside your own public_html directory by typing:
  mkdir Java2
- Copy sources:
  cp ~larryg/public_html/Java/TickerTapeApplet.java Java2
  cp ~larryg/public_html/Java/TickerTape.java Java2
- Copy the html file:
  cp ~larryg/public_html/Java/TickerTapeApplet.html Java2
- Compile the java code in your Java2 directory:
  - homer% rlogin ovid
  - ovid% cd public_html/Java2
  - javac -deprecation TickerTapeApplet.java
    Note: the "-deprecation" parameter tells Java to accept an earlier Java syntax.
- Make sure your main directory has world-execute permission
Create a link: Make a link from your previous HTML, for example your main index.html file, by inserting the string:
<A HREF="Java2/TickerTapeApplet.html"> TickerTape </A> in it.
Modify the file: Use any text editor to modify the file "TickerTapeApplet.html"

This html file can take a number of parameters which include the width and height of the applet, its speed moving across the screen, the number of URLs that it will display, the type of each URL (text or image), and each URL. You can have as many components (i. e., URL text and images) in the applet as you desire. The example TickerTapeApplet.html below shows a tickertape html which displays 4 components: two lines of scrolling text interspersed with two gif images:

<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE> TickerTapeApplet.html </TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY>
Here is a ticker Tape Applet
<APPLET CODE="TickerTapeApplet.class" WIDTH=300 HEIGHT=100>
<PARAM NAME=Speed VALUE=50>
<PARAM NAME=NumberOfURLs VALUE="4">
<PARAM NAME=URL1 VALUE="...Hi there: here is an example of a Ticker Tape">
<PARAM NAME=URL2 VALUE="../Image/xbbee.gif">
<PARAM NAME=URLType2 VALUE="imagefile">
<PARAM NAME=URL3 VALUE="...You can place a variety of messages here.">
<PARAM NAME=URL4 VALUE="../Image/butterfly.gif">
<PARAM NAME=URLType4 VALUE="imagefile">
</APPLET>
</BODY> </HTML>

In addition, if you know even just a little bit of Java you can modify the applet by changing fonts, colors, backgrounds, etc.