Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1217

Scrawling text

How do you make the text scrawl across the screen? Likewise, how do you make it do that in the lower left hand corner of the browser window bar thing?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beatrice, Nebraska
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The scrolling text would be called "marquee" I believe.

The text on the lower left of the browser is a java applet. If you want, I can hook you up with the app.

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Registered: Jul 2000
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<script language="JavaScript">
<!--

// You may edit the message below.
var startMsg = "Welcome! ";

var str = "";
var msg = "";
var leftMsg = "";


function setMessage()
{
if (msg == "")
{
str = " ";
msg = startMsg;
leftMsg = "";
}

if (str.length == 1)
{
while (msg.substring(0, 1) == " ")
{
leftMsg = leftMsg + str;
str = msg.substring(0, 1);
msg = msg.substring(1, msg.length);
}

leftMsg = leftMsg + str;
str = msg.substring(0, 1);
msg = msg.substring(1, msg.length);

for (var ii = 0; ii < 120; ii++)
{
str = " " + str;
}
}
else
str = str.substring(10, str.length);

window.status = leftMsg + str;
// This editable value (1000 = 1 second)
// corresponds to the speed of the shooting
// message.
timeout = window.setTimeout('setMessage()',100);

}
// -->
</script>


This is the script for the browser thing you were talking about. You can see what to edit.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Illinois
Posts: 1217

Thanks, thats a big help SP. And the marquee thing, is that JAVA too or just HTML?

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Registered: Jan 2001
Location: New Jersey. USA
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quote:

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Originally posted by Leroy Binks:
Thanks, thats a big help SP. And the marquee thing, is that JAVA too or just HTML?

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Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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<marquee>text</marquee> only works in IE i believe

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that's what i thought, too, but i'm pretty sure mozilla supports it now, too.

i hate marquee. it's the <blink> of the 21st century.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Illinois
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Thanx Dingle, got that written down. Now if I can get that damn Java to work right... I'll get it I'll get it. Trust me.

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I forgot to mention that you put that Java script in the body of your HTML document, and not the header. Just in case that might be why you can't get it to work.


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quote:

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Originally posted by WastedPotential:
that's what i thought, too, but i'm pretty sure mozilla supports it now, too.

i hate marquee. it's the <blink> of the 21st century.

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Registered: Oct 2000
Location: Illinois
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quote:

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Originally posted by SocialParasite:
I forgot to mention that you put that Java script in the body of your HTML document, and not the header. Just in case that might be why you can't get it to work.

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