Applet Name: "adSpace"
Import(s): java.applet, java.awt, java.io, java.lang, java.net, java.util
Feature(s): image, audio, animation, network, mouse
Source: adSpace.java
Author: David Nicol, Calum Smeaton

Usage Guide:

The adSpace emulates a football stadium style rotating advertising hoarding. It downloads a series of image files, and resizes them to create a rotating animation. Clicking the mouse over the current image follows the hypertext link associated with that image. The images and associated URLs are specified in a configuration file, which is downloaded and parsed by the applet. The applet parameters are:

adList: The URL to the configuration file.

pause: The length of time (in milliseconds) to display each image

deltaY: The pixel length between each frame in the rotation

animation scrollPause: The length of time (in milliseconds) between each frame in the rotation animation.

numFrames: The number of frames in each rotation animation (takes precedence of the deltaY parameter)

aniAudio: The URL to an audio file used during rotation animation

The config file format is:

{
URL to image1
URL image1 should link to when clicked
[URL to audio1 file]
}
{
URL to image2
URL image2 should link to when clicked
[URL to audio2 file]
}
etc.

Usage example:

<applet code="adSpace.class" width=468 height=60&lg <param name=adList value="adlist.txt"&lg
<param name=pause value=4000&lg
<param name=deltaY value=2&lg
<param name=scrollPause value=40&lg
<param name=aniAudio value="danger.au"&lg
</applet&lg