OliStar - Parameters


The file names in some parameters can be relative or full. Some parameters are optional and can be left out of the html code.

foreColor - the color of message text that is displayed while the applet loads images over the network.

backColor - the color of the background that is displayed before any images are loaded. Also used for the color of the background if no backTileImage is specified.

backTileImage - optional - the static image that is tiled behind everything.

logoImage - optional - the static image that is displayed above the tiled image, but behind the scrolling images.

logoImagePos - optional - The upperleft corner of logoImage referenced from the applet's upperleft corner. For example, if you want the left side of the image to appear 10 pixels right of and 20 pixels below the upperleft corner of the applet then use: "10,20"

topImage - optional - The static image that is displayed above everything.

topImagePos - optional - The upperleft corner of topImage referenced from the applet's upperleft corner.

starFillColor - The color of the star's interior.

starBorderColor - The color of the star's border.

starCenter - The center of the star referenced from the applet's upperleft corner.

starPointRadius - The maximum radius of the star in pixels

starUnpointRadius - The radius of the valleys between the star's points

starPoints - The number of points that the star has. (odd numbers look very strange!)

starDelay - The minimum time (in miliseconds) between animated frames

starShrinkAndGrow - Set to "yes" if you want the star to shrink and grow periodically. Set to "no" if you don't want it to shrink and grow.

mousyMessage - optional - a string that is displayed when the mouse cursor is over the applet.

mousyMessFont - optional - the fontname,style,size of the mousyMessage

The available Java font names are:
"Helvetica", "TimesRoman", "Courier", "Dialog", "ZapfDingbats".
The spelling and the case of the letters is important.
The available Java font styles are:
"Plain", "Bold", "Italic", "BoldItalic".The size can be anything you want as long as it is greater than zero.

mousyMessColor - optional - color of the mousyMessage

mousyMessSpeed - optional - the number of pixels the mousyMessage will move for each frame.

clickToURL - the URL to link to when the mouse is clicked anywhere on the applet. The given URL can be reletive to the current document or a full URL.

clickToURLinFrameName - the name of the frame to open this link into. The value can also be one of the following reserved strings that have special functions:

"_self" show in the current frame
"_parent" show in the parent frame
"_top" show in the top-most frame
"_blank" show in a new unnamed top-level window

<alternate html> - used if the user's browser does not support java. Replace this entire line with whatever you want to display if the user has an old browser that can't run java applets. If the user's browser can run java then this html code will be ignored.