MarqueeLights

This applet livens up image by surrounding it with flashing lights. This will spice up web pages.
Unfortunately, you don't have the Java language, so you can't see it work.

The source is here.

To use the applet on your web pages:

Download the MarqueeLights and Img classes into your web directory. The classes are in the tar file marquee.tar, which can be untar'd with tar xfv marquee.tar.

Add the following html to your web page, substituting your image, and adding any desired parameters:

<applet code=MarqueeLights.class width=200 height=200>
<param name="image" value="your_image.gif">
</applet>

If you want the image full-sized, look at the Java console output to find the proper width and height to specify in the applet tag.

The applet takes the following options:

<param name="image" value="img.gif"> - This specifies the image to be displayed and must be included.
<param name="delay" value="150"> - This is the delay between operations in ms. This delay is adjusted depending on the mode in use.
<param name="url" value="foo.html"> - If the image is clicked, the browser will go to this url.
<param name="bulb" value="3"> - This is the size of the bulbs.
<param name="border" value="10"> - This is the width of the border.
<param name="stride" value="3"> - This is the stride in chase mode.
<param name="gap" value="3"> - This is the gap between the bulbs.
<param name="mode" value="frbF"> - This is the script for the flash modes and can contain the characters: f for forward chase, r for reverse, F or R for multicolor chase, c or C for clear sequence, s or S for set sequence (C and S are random order), y for yes (all on), n for no (all off), 1 for 1 bulb, and + for additive. For instance, if you want the lights to go forwards and then reverse, use value="fr".

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Ken Shirriff: shirriff@eng.sun.com

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Copyright 2000 Ken Shirriff. Last updated 3/13/2001. Java and other Java-based names are trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. and refer to Sun's family of Java-branded technologies. Use of this software is subject to the terms of the license agreement.