This applet enables the creation of animated
banners and images for your web site. All that you need to do
is to create the images as a series of frames, and the applet
will then generate the source code for an entire HTML page including
the appropriate JavaScript required to perform the animation.
You can create animated banners and/or moving images which can
also link to other pages and target specific frames. The delay
intervals between the display of each image can be set by the
user.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The beauty of a Java Applet is that once the
applet has fully loaded, one can disconnect from the Internet
and yet continue using the Applet for as long as one likes, provided
the current browser session is not terminated.
INSTRUCTIONS
The creation of an animation entails three
basic steps:
Create the images using a graphics program,
e.g. Corel or Paint Shop Pro (a combination of GIFs and JPEGs
may be used) and upload the images to the server where your site
is situated.
Enter the image files into the applet using
the appropriate numbered textfields. At least two images must
be entered with the first image entered into the first textfield.
If you require a specific image to be displayed for a longer
period than the given loop interval, simply leave one or more
textfields following it empty and the applet will fill them in
with the same image file. This causes the same image to be displayed
several times before the next image in the series is displayed.
There is no need to fill in the empty textfields as this is automatically
done by the applet, with the exception of the final image in
which case a manual repetition of the name is required where
appropriate. This is due to the fact that you may not wish to
use all of the image frames in the applet and therefore the applet
assumes that the last textfield used contains the final image
to be displayed in the cycle.
The link, target and loop delay textfields are optional and if
they are left blank, then the animation will not contain a link
and will loop using the default interval of 1000 milliseconds,
i.e. 1 second per frame. Please note that before updating the
HTML code, you must reset the HTML code area.
Copy and paste the HTML code into any text
editor, e.g. Notepad and save the file as a .htm file. Please
note that the generated code is aimed at producing a completely
new page onto which the user can build according to their needs
or requirements. PLEASE
NOTE: should you want to paste
the generated code into an existing .htm file,
the relevant HTML tags created by this program must be removed,
otherwise it will not work properly.
