Rainbow Text

Applet displays a text message whose letters shift through defined colors. A BACKGROUND image may be used, and a URL link (and TARGET) may be defined as well.

Downloading

The applet may be downloaded for free by clicking on the TAR-file link below (read the FAQ if you're not sure what to do with a TAR file). The FAQ also has step by step instructions on how to embed an applet into your own webpage.

RainbowText1.tar

Once unTARed, you should find the following classes (plus a '.jar' file if you want to use the archive= attribute in the <applet> tag):

Parameters

Below are descriptions of all the parameters you may use to customize the applets to your webpages. Be sure to enclose any parameters that contain white space in double-quotation marks. Most parameters have default values in case you do not specify your own values, but the first two parameters (AUTHOR and COPYRIGHT) are necessary. If you are not sure how to incorporate an applet into a webpage (with its parameter names and values), looks at the source of this webpage and the applet embedded for an example, or read the FAQ page.

  • AUTHOR: This parameter must appear exactly as follows: 
    <param name=AUTHOR value="Eric Harshbarger, http://www.ericharshbarger.org">

  • COPYRIGHT: This parameter must appear exactly as follows: 
    <param name=COPYRIGHT value="RainbowText applet, Copyright 1999, Eric Harshbarger">

  • BGCOLOR: This parameter indicates the background color of the applet. Consult the FAQ page if you are unsure what format to use for the parameter's value.

  • BACKGROUND: This parameter points to an image file that is used as a background to the applet. All the various texts of the applet will be painted on top of this image. Consult the FAQ page if you are unsure about what image formats you may use.

  • FONTNAME: This value indicates the fontface used by the applet. Java1.0.2 has the following values from which to choose (must be spelled exactly): TimesRoman, Dialog, Courier, Helvetica, DialogInput, Symbol.

  • FONTSIZE: This value indicates the size of the font used by the applet.

  • FONTSTYLE: This value indicates the style of the font used by the applet. The value should be one of the following: plain, bold, italic, bolditalic.

  • TEXT: The message to be displayed. Multiple lines are separated by the LINEBREAK character.

  • LINEBREAK: The character that indicates linebreaks in the TEXT parameter. The default is '\' (backslash).

  • SPEED: The number of milliseconds between color shifts.

  • COLORS: A list of RGB triplets (RGB values are comma separated, each color triplet is separated with DELIMITER character). The list indicates all of the colors that will be used to paint the text (and their order).

  • DELIMITER: The character used to separate RGB triplets in the COLORS parameter. Default is "|" (pipe).

  • COLOR.SHIFT: The amount and direction of the color shifting. Positive numbers indicate a shift left to right (negative, right to left).

  • URL: The URL of the page that should be spawned when the applet is clicked. May be omitted for no link.

  • TARGET: The name of the browser frame in which the URL will appear. Default is '_self'.


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