Script flow

http://clavius.hackensackhigh.org/~cc/mp3.html


Check out the grey area at the bottom of the page where the message flows. How can I do that? I tried 'view: source' but it didn't look right.

 

I looked, but it's all jibberish and hocus pocus. What am I SUPPOSED to be seeing?

 

You're supposed to be seeing the code. Kind of like the Matrix.

Actually, here's how it works. There's a few messages stored as variables. The function is set to call itself on a certain time interval. Every time it does, it causes the message to scroll over by one letter. Of course, this is a very sketchy description, as I really don't know JavaScript. I've seen variations of this scroller since 1996 (or whenever Netscape 2.0 came out). The first one I saw also used the same variable names, like "seed". So all of these were probably somehow based on the first version.

 

Ardens:

I knw what I'm supposed to be seeing, the code, god knows I used HTML from scratch enough, I just didn't know the javascript code

Grimby:

Thanks a bunch!

EDit: It's not working. No matter what I do, I can't get the message to flow.

Here's my code:

<script laguage-JAVASCRIPT>
<!-- infoscroll(100,1) vartext1: "Message" // --> </script>

What a I doing wrong?

 

Well for starters, are you including all the code? As you can clearly see the last bit uses a function called infoscroll, which is defined in the previous script tags. You first have to define infoscroll. Here is the entire bit:

<script LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function infoscroll(seed,looped)
{
var text0 = " ";
var text1 = "You wanted them now you have them. Episode I mp3's. Download them ASAP.";
var text2 = "Star Wars: Episode 1 is out in movie theaters NOW! Go see it. Now. Right now. Seen it already? See it again!";
var text3 = "3 Hot Games from Lucasarts are out, X-Wing Alliance, Star Wars Episode I, and Star Wars Racer. Live the legend!";
var text4 = "E-mail me: master_yoda10@hotmail.com Your comments, suggestions, complaints, and questions are welcome.";
var text5 = "Guess what guys? I have a news section! I know you're just dying to see it! Go for it! What do you have to lose? Just your sanity and your soul..."
var msg=text1+text0+text5+text0+text2+text0+text3+text0+text4;
var putout = " ";
var c = 1;

if (looped > 10)
{ window.status="The Force will be with you, always."; }
else if (seed > 100)
{
seed--;
var cmd="infoscroll(" + seed + "," + looped + ")";
timerTwo=window.setTimeout(cmd,100);
}
else if (seed <= 100 && seed > 0)
{
for (c=0 ; c < seed ; c++)
{ putout+=" "; }
putout+=msg.substring(0,100-seed);
seed--;
var cmd="infoscroll(" + seed + "," + looped + ")";
window.status=putout;
timerTwo=window.setTimeout(cmd,100);
}
else if (seed <= 0)
{
if (-seed < msg.length)
{
putout+=msg.substring(-seed,msg.length);
seed--;
var cmd="infoscroll(" + seed + "," + looped + ")";
window.status=putout;
timerTwo=window.setTimeout(cmd,100); // 100
}
else
{
window.status=" ";
looped += 1;
var cmd = "infoscroll(100," + looped + ")";
timerTwo=window.setTimeout(cmd,75); // 75
}
}
}
// -->

<!--
infoscroll(100,1)
// -->
</SCRIPT>

As you can see the function is defined and then immediately used. You just chane the text content by redifining the tet variables at the top.

 

So I have to copy and paste all of that for my one message?

 

I think you can find the code to do that in any JavaScript guide.

 

I wouldn't copy it verbatim without giving credit to the original author.