News Scroller

What can these menus do for you?
? These are hyperlinkable news scrollers or text scrollers, available in numerous themes and suitable for use as navigation bars down the side of your page.
? Messages of your choice display one after the other, and each message can be hyperlinked as a menu item. You can also use the menu without hyperlinks to display information.
? Rollover effect. When you move the mouse over the menu, the display pauses and the text becomes underlined.
? Colour scheme. You can change the colour scheme of the menu. Click here to find out more about colours.
? Fonts and text formatting. The menu supports true-type fonts and you can format text colour, size, weight and alignment. Click here to find out more about fonts and text formatting.
? Layout and line-wrapping. This menu features automated layout. Automated layout means that the menu adapts itself to the content you enter into it. For example, buttons and menu items will be automatically sized and the thematic elements recalculated to fit precisely. Click here to find out important information about layout and line-wrapping, including design tips and essential guidance.
? Hyperlinks. Every menu item can have hyperlinks attached. Click here to find out more about hyperlinks.
? Script triggers. If you like writing your own javascripts, you will be happy to find that this applet can directly trigger your scripts. Click here to find out more about scripts.
? Capacity. This menu supports up to 50 menu items, including submenu items (if available). For greater capacity, or for menus created dynamically or from databases, try the Big Happy Menus variation.
? Tools. An online visual configuration tool is available. It can be used to edit the size, appearance and content of your menu.
? Sound effects. The menu can trigger sounds of your choice.
? Custom solutions based on this menu are also available.
? Help. Here is a help page with more information. If you would like to open up ALL the hidden extra information sections on this page simultaneously, then click here.

Applet Features
iFrame Text Presentation Applet

NEWS & QUOTES JAVA TICKER APPLET is the perfect browser embeddable tool that you can enhance your web site by showing live RSS news or stock market quotes in a rotating ticker tape that you can customize with many features. This ticker can function either as a RSS news ticker or as quotes ticker with a single instance, and also more instances of the applet HTML code can be used in the same web page.

NOTE: This is a Java TM Applet, therefor it works on every Java compatible browser. To find out more about Java and how to install and applet on your site, please click here.

DATA SOURCE: the applet gets data from scripts placed on the same server via HTTP calls. We offer two free fully functional PHP scripts for quotes and RSS news:

quotes script is a sample script that generates random data and can be easily integrated with your quote data feed
RSS news script can parse any RSS feed and output news titles and links. To set a specific RSS feed you just need to edit the first line in the script to enter RSS feed URL

Automatic text sizing -- adjusts to applet height
Separate text and mouse-over link colors
Complete font control - color, face, (auto)size, and style
Fine vertical adjustment for precise text placement
Status bar text on mouse-over
Speed control and settable pause-on-start
Linkable mode - URL and target or frame
No-Link mode - for basic marquee use