Active TickerTape Demonstration
This demonstration shows a way to change the text that is displayed by the ticker tape.
To try this out, just enter something in the text field and press the "Do It" button.
There are many things that you can do with this feature of ticker tape. Here are some ideas:
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- - run an applet that connects to your server and loads up stock ticker information and then shows that information in the ticker.
- - run an applet that manages a talk session with other clients on the Internet through your server and displays the entered text through several ticker tapes.
- - create an applet that tells the ticker to display a different text depending on what browser the user has, or what Internet address they are visiting from.
Sample code for the above text entry applet is available through this link. To find out how to do this, go immediately to the action() method. Basically, all a Java applet needs to do to update the text in the ticker tape is to call the ticker tape method: DisplayThisText(String newText) after it has retrieved a reference to the ticker tape applet through a call to getAppletContext.
Note also that the ticker tape applet includes a name parameter in its applet tag (you will need to view the HTML source of this page). The applet is called "criswick" and that is how it is referred to in the belt.java code.
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