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

Usage Guide:

Applet Name: "nullPoint"

The nullPoint applet is a simple presentation package designed to be highly network efficient. Like most presentation packages, the presentation slides can be displayed via a mouse click (scrolling the new slide into view), or automatically displayed using a timer. The presentation slides are constructed on the fly, allowing minimal image downloading. The applet package provides multi-font and sized text, random placement of specified images and text and audio support. The presentation can also be displayed browser-inlined, or as a pop-out window. A config file describing the presentation is downloaded, and parsed by the applet, which then constructs the images/slides to be displayed.

The applet parameters are:

slides: The URL to the configuration file.
pause: The length of time (in milliseconds) to display each image/slide (auto mode only)
deltaY: The pixel length between each frame in the slide-in animation
title: The title of the presentation
scrollPause: The pause between eaech frame in the slide-in animation
auto: Determines whether the presentation is in autio mode or not (1=auto 0=manual)
external: Determines whether the presentation is inlined or not (1=inside 0=external)
aniAudio: The URL to an audio file used during slide-in animation

An example config file is available here.

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