the power to Designed by Millennia Star

There. Nothing much extravagant, but it was a bitch to get to work, considering the complexity of the all-so-wonderful Java Exception classes. Goddammit!

Anywayz, here's how the thing works.

There are eleven (11) different parameters that can be used. Not all of them MUST be used, but some of them are mandatory. An asterisk (*) has been placed by each of the following parameters that MUST be present within the applet tag.

URL -- this is to specify the URL to change to when the user raises the mouse button while the cursor is above the specified applet. [Note: a user CAN click elksewhere on the screen, drag the mouse over the applet, and let go of the button and the applet will still goto the specified page. It's sort of drag-and-drop and not drag-and-drop at the same time.]

Target -- this is to specify the target frame for frames capable browsers.

Background -- this specifies the background image. The codebase is used as the location of the image, but pointing to a root directory is also possible.

* bg & fg -- background and foreground colours, respectively, are specified using the RGB values. If you don't like RGB, then you can goto hell Andrew. I'm not programming hex value conversion...

* Text -- take a wild guess. The text to display. BUT, I've added a few different features you may like.

  • Using a "|" (pipe) will allow you to make the applet do a carriage return, forcing the everything after the pipe to start in the next line. It may also be used at the end of the entire text string to add a pause the length of Line_Delay.
  • Using a "^" (carat) will allow you to make the text appear from the upper left-hand corner of the applet and clear everything else that is shown. It's use is shown in the example above.

    FontStyle -- specifies the font style. Use 0 for plain text, 1 for bold text, 2 for italic text, and 3 for bold and italic text.

    Font -- specifies the font. Be careful you do not specify a font not on the users system.

    FontSize -- specifies the font size.

    * Char_Delay -- specifies the delay (in milliseconds) between the display of each character.

    * Line_Delay -- specifies the delay (in milliseconds) between the display of each line. A line is defined as the use of a pipe in the text string [see above].

    That's it. The features are all given. Enjoy. Hope it's what you wanted... if not, then you can go to hell...