Add a scrolling status bar text to your site. You can have multiple lines of text. The text can appear in the given order or in random. A very good script to make announcements to your visitors.
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.01 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>
<title>Scrolling Statusbar Text</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
/*
Script for scrolling the statusbar text
*/
/*** Configurable Section ***/
// Speed of scrolling
var SS_Delay = 80;
// Position to start scrolling
var SS_SPos = 100;
// Whether or not to display messages in random order
var SS_Random = false;
// Messages to scroll
var SS_ArMsg = new Array(
'This is line 1',
'This is line 2',
'This is line 3',
'This is line 4'
);
/*** No need to edit below this ***/
var SS_Timer = null;
var SS_Pos = -1;
var SS_Msg = "";
var SS_MsgId = -1;
var SS_MsgLen = SS_ArMsg.length;
// Start Scrolling
function SS_Start(){
if(SS_Timer)clearTimeout(SS_Timer);
SS_Scroll();
}
// Function for performing scroll
function SS_Scroll(){
if(SS_Pos <= SS_Msg.length){
self.status = SS_Msg.substring(SS_Pos, SS_Pos + SS_SPos);
}else{
SS_NextMsg();
SS_Pos = -1;
}
SS_Pos++;
SS_Timer = self.setTimeout("SS_Scroll()", SS_Delay);
}
// Get the Next Message for scrolling
function SS_NextMsg(){
if(SS_Random){
SS_MsgId = parseInt(Math.random() * SS_MsgLen);
}else{
SS_MsgId = (++SS_MsgId >= SS_MsgLen) ? 0 : SS_MsgId;
}
SS_Msg = SS_ArMsg[SS_MsgId];
// Prepend the string with space to match the
// specified starting position
for(var i = 0; i < SS_SPos; i++){
SS_Msg = " " + SS_Msg;
}
}
