# Lines starting with a pound sign (#) are comments and ignored. # Blank lines are likewise ignored. # Paramters: # @HEAD Requred. Must be the first line of a news item. # May be more than one line. Terminated by a @URL, # @MSG, or @END tags. # @URL Optional. A URL that will be associated with the # news item. If the item is clicked on by a mouse, # the URL will be loaded. Must be all on one line. # @FRAME Optional, but URL must be defined. If the item is # clicked on by a mouse and the URL is defined, this will # over-ride the TARGET parameter, allowing different frames # to be targeted by different news items. # @MSG Requied. The message text. May be multiple lines. # Terminated by a @END tag. # @END Required. Signals the end of the news item. # Unicode has not been tried within any of these, but I imagine # it'd work. @HEADThis is a headline. @MSGAnd this is the message text. @END # Linked text @HEADThis is linked @URLhttp://www.io.com/~crackers/index.html @MSGThis is an example of linked text. It reloads the first page. @END # Frame target @HEADFrames! @URLHome.html @FRAMEfrmMain @MSGThis item uses the FRAME parameter. It'll reload the first page in this frame. @END # Real news @HEADActual News! @MSGNote for previous users: the HrefScroller class is gone. It's URL linking and mouse detection methods have been rolled into the Scroller class. @END # Java Boutique @HEADJava Boutique @URLhttp://javaboutique.internet.com/ @MSGThis is one of my favorite places to look for applets and Java news. They were also kind enough to judge this thing was good enough to win a contest! @END # Long headline @HEADThis is an incredibly long headline. It's doubtful that you would want to do this, but the capability is there. @MSGOkay? @END # The End @HEADThe End @MSGThis is the last message. As soon as it's scrolled off, everything starts over again. @END