// width and height of the ticker (pixel)
var tickerwidth=450
var tickerheight=22

// font
var tickerfont="Tahoma, Verdana, Arial"

// font-size
//var tickerfontsize=1.6

// three font-colors
var tickerfontcolorpre="#000000"
var tickerfontcolormark="#DD0000"
var tickerfontcolorafter="#000000"

// background-color
var backgroundcolor="white"

// pause between each word marked (1000 = 1 second)
var pausebetweenwords=400 

// pause between each message (1000 = 1 second)
var pausebetweenmessages=2000

// pause after the fade effect (1000 = 1 second)
var pauseafterfade=1500

// do not edit the code below this line
var transparency=100
var transparencystep=5
var windowheight=0
var windowwidth=0
var x_pos=470
var y_pos=0
var i_message=-1
var messagesplit=""
var i_messagesplit=0
var i_mark=0
var tickercontent
var pausefade=40
var oneloopfinished=false
var ns4=document.layers?1:0
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all?1:0 
var ie=document.all?1:0

function splitmessage() {
	transparency=100
	if (ie) {
		i_message++
		if (i_message>=message.length) {oneloopfinished=true}
		if (i_message>=message.length) {i_message=0}
		i_mark=0
		messagesplit=message[i_message].split(" ")
		for (i=0;i<messagesplit.length;i++) {
			messagesplit[i]=messagesplit[i]+" "
		}
		messagesplit[messagesplit.length]=" "

		document.all.ticker.filters.alpha.opacity=transparency
		runticker()
	}
	else if (ns6 || ns4) {
		i_message++
		if (i_message>=message.length) {i_message=0}
		i_mark=0
		messagesplit=message[i_message].split(" ")
		for (i=0;i<messagesplit.length;i++) {
			messagesplit[i]=messagesplit[i]+" "
		}
		messagesplit[messagesplit.length]=" "
		if (ns6) {
			document.getElementById('ticker').style.MozOpacity=transparency/100
		}
		runticker()
	}
}

function runticker() {
	if (i_mark<messagesplit.length) {
		gettickercontent()
			
		if (ie) {
			ticker.innerHTML=tickercontent
		}
		if (ns6) {
			document.getElementById('ticker').innerHTML=tickercontent
		}
		if (ns4) {
			document.ticker.document.write(tickercontent)
			document.ticker.document.close()
		}
  		i_mark++
				
  		var tickertimer=setTimeout("runticker()",pausebetweenwords)

	}
	else {
		clearTimeout(tickertimer)
		setTimeout("fade()",pausebetweenmessages)
	}
}

function fade() {
	if (transparency>0){
		transparency-=transparencystep
		if (ie) {
			document.all.ticker.filters.alpha.opacity=transparency
		}
		if (ns6) {
			document.getElementById('ticker').style.MozOpacity=transparency/100
		}
		var fadetimer=setTimeout("fade()",pausefade)
	}
	else {
		clearTimeout(fadetimer)
		setTimeout("splitmessage()",pauseafterfade)
	}
}

function gettickercontent() {
		
	tickercontent="<table width="+tickerwidth+" height="+tickerheight+" cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr valign=middle><td align=left>"
	tickercontent+="<font face=\""+tickerfont+"\" color=\""+tickerfontcolorpre+"\">"
	for (i=0;i<i_mark;i++) {
		tickercontent+=messagesplit[i]
	}
	tickercontent+="</font>"
	tickercontent+="<font face=\""+tickerfont+"\" color=\""+tickerfontcolormark+"\">"
	tickercontent+=messagesplit[i_mark]
	tickercontent+="</font>"
	tickercontent+="<font face=\""+tickerfont+"\" color=\""+tickerfontcolorafter+"\">"
	for (i=(i_mark+1);i<messagesplit.length;i++) {
		tickercontent+=messagesplit[i]
	}
	tickercontent+="</font>"
	tickercontent+="</td></tr></table>"

}

setposition()
function setposition() {
	if (ie) {
		windowheight=document.body.clientHeight
		windowwidth=document.body.clientWidth
	}
	if (ns6) {
		windowheight=window.innerHeight
		windowwidth=window.innerWidth
	}
	if (ns4) {
		windowheight=window.innerHeight
		windowwidth=window.innerWidth
	}
	//x_pos=2 //(windowwidth-tickerwidth)/2
	//y_pos=2 //(windowheight-tickerheight)/2
	document.bgColor=backgroundcolor
}

if (ie) {
	document.write("<div id=\"ticker\" style=\"position:absolute;top:"+y_pos+"px;left:"+x_pos+"px;width:"+tickerwidth+"px;height:"+tickerheight+"px;overflow:hidden\;filter:alpha(opacity=100);-moz-opacity:100\">")
	document.write("</div>")
	splitmessage()
}
else if (ns6) {
	document.write("<div id=\"ticker\" style=\"position:absolute;top:"+y_pos+"px;left:"+x_pos+"px;width:"+tickerwidth+"px;height:"+tickerheight+"px;overflow:hidden\;-moz-opacity:100\">")
	document.write("</div>")
	splitmessage()
}
else if (ns4) {
	document.write("<layer name=\"ticker\" width="+tickerwidth+" height="+tickerheight+" top="+y_pos+" left="+x_pos+">")
	document.write("tickercontent")
	document.write("</layer>")
	document.close()
	window.onload=splitmessage
}