Advanced Sliding Text Applet

Dynamic Data From a Server Side Script

Here the applet is configured to acquire the data from a server side script rather than a flat file. This demo uses a PHP script and therefore will only work when running under a web server with a PHP engine.

Although we use a simple PHP script here any server side scripting language can be used eg. (ASP, PHP, Perl, JSP etc).

This method allows a script to be constructed to acquire data from virtually any data source (eg. databases, feeds and streams etc).

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The colors, fonts and various other properties of the tree are set via HTML Param tags. Here is the HTML code for the above demo :-

<applet archive="AdvSlidingText.jar" code="AdvSlidingText" width="250" height="250" mayscript>

<!-- Start Up Properties -->
<param name="startupmessage" value="Loading date - Please Wait.">
<param name="startBGcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
<param name="startTXTcolor" value="#000000">

<!-- Applet Properties -->
<param name="BGcolor" value="#FFEEAA">
<param name="BorderWidth" value="1">
<param name="BorderColor" value="#0000FF">
<param name="ScrollSpeed" value="100">
<param name="TextColor" value="#000000">
<param name="LinkColor" value="#0000FF">
<param name="Font" value="Arial,N,12">
<param name="Indent" value="10">
<param name="PagePause" value="3">
<param name="mousepause" value="true">
<param name="WordWrap" value="true">

<!-- Data -->
<param name="dataURL" value="textdata.php">

</applet>