Caption, scrolling text all are changeable with applet parameters and a text file. Click on bold text to jump to related link ! Bold text means the text carries a hyper-link


 
I am giving away this applet for free with source code. Feel free to download it and use it for your purposes.

Disclaimer: You can download this free for use it anywhere for commercial or non-commercial purposes. (you cannot sell this) This applet and its documentation is given on an as-is basis and I assume no responsiblity of anything. However, do send me the URL of the page where this is being used, so that I can add it to the llinks-page.

I agree. Download NEWS11.ZIP

Features of this applet:
 

Deploying this applet:
1.Using all the features of the applet in your HTML
The code below uses all the parameters of the news applet!
<CENTER>
<APPLET CODE=news.class WIDTH=250 HEIGHT=150>
<PARAM NAME="CONTENT" VALUE="news.txt">
<PARAM NAME="CAPTION" VALUE="XYZ NEWS co">
<PARAM NAME="LINK" VALUE="http://java.sun.com">
<PARAM NAME="BODYCOLOR" VALUE="0,0,0">
<PARAM NAME="BODYTEXTCOLOR" VALUE="255,255,255">
<PARAM NAME="LINKCOLOR" VALUE="255,255,0">
<PARAM NAME="CAPTIONCOLOR" VALUE="0,128,128">
<PARAM NAME="CAPTIONTEXTCOLOR" VALUE="0,128,128">
<PARAM NAME="FRAMENAME" VALUE="myframe">
</APPLET>
</CENTER>

Sample headline text file (news.txt):
(Note: The URL inside the < and > character at the beginning of the line becomes the link for the headline!) Also, see below for the table of colors.

<http://www.mozilla.org>News! Extra! Extra Netscape releases source code at mozilla.org
This is another headline....
<http://java.sun.com>Sun releases Java Development Kit 1.2 Beta ! Get it while it is hot.
<http://www.news.com>For unpartial tech news, visit CNET's news site at www.news.com

Color Reference Table: (use any of  the following color codes in the applet parameter weather it is background color or the text color or link color. the color code are basically Red,Green,Blue values
where Red,Green and blue are numbers from 0 to 255)
 
 

255,0,0 255,255,255 [WHITE]
0,255,0 64,64,64
0,0,255 128,128,128
0,0,0 128,0,64
128,0,0 255,0,128
0,128,0 0,64,128
0,0,128 0,128,255
255,255,0 128,64,0
128,128,0 255,128,0
0,255,255 128,0,128
0,128,128 255,0,255

2. What are all those Applet Parameters ?
Mandatory Parameters:
CONTENT - specifies the file which contains all  your headlines.
Optional Parameters:
CAPTION - what you put here is displayed as the  caption of the Applet.
LINK    - what URL you give here becomes the  link for the caption.
BODYCOLOR  - Color of the applet body.
BODYTEXTCOLOR - Color of the applet's scrolling Text.
LINKCOLOR - Color of hyper links. (Note: Hyperlinks  by default appear in bold text)
CAPTIONCOLOR - Color of the applet's Caption.
CAPTIONTEXTCOLOR - Color of the applet's Caption text.
FRAMENAME - The name of the frame which this applet  should control. If you donot use frames, donot specify this parameter.

3.How to specify links for each Headline ?
        Prefix the headline with a URL within < and > characters and  that becomes the link for that headline. (See Also: the sample news11.txt  accompanying the applet). Example: put this line the news.txt file to display the headline with a link.
        <http://home.netscape.com> This is a link to Netscape's Site !

4.How do I add a headline which doesn't use a link ?
        Simple. Donot put the < url> tag before the headline. (See Also: the sample news11demo.txt accompanying the applet)

5.Bare Minimum HTML code to deploy
 <CENTER>
 <APPLET CODE=news.class WIDTH=250 HEIGHT=150>
 <PARAM NAME="CONTENT" VALUE="news.txt">
 <PARAM NAME="CAPTION" VALUE="XYZ NEWS co">
 <PARAM NAME="LINK" VALUE="http://java.sun.com">
 </APPLET>
 </CENTER>

6. Where else can this be used ?
        You can use it like a site-guide if you're using frames. You can keep the left side frame for the applet itself and the right frame can be used to display the links! All you have to do is set the name of the right side frame to the FRAMENAME applet parameter.

7. What will be the next version ?
        The next version will be News Applet 1.2

8. What new features will be available in the next version ?

 9.When will the next version available ?
        I  am not sure myself  :-) I do Java programming in my free time and so cannot commit on dates.
Source Code of News Applet!!!

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