• download the class file
• locate this file on your server
• and configure your HTML document with an applet tag (described under Using It)

To download the class file chose one of the following compressed archive types:

icltimer.tar.Z for UNIX

icltimer.sit.hqx for Macintosh

icltimer.zip for Intel based PC - this technique truncates the name, make sure to rename the class file to icltimer.class exactly.

Place the icltimer.class in the same directory as the HTML file you wish the applet to appear in.

The above topmost timer makes use of almost all of the available parameter and has an HTML applet tag that looks like:

  <applet code="icltimer" width=190 height=58 align=absmiddle>
  <param name=ledcolor value=blue>
  <param name=backcolor value=white>
  <param name=framecolor value=grey>
  <param name=days-digits value=1>
  <param name=year value=99>
  <param name=month value=11>
  <param name=date value=31>
  <param name=hour value=0>
  <param name=minute value=0>
  <param name=second value=0>
  <param name=language value=0>
  <param name=href value="http://www.spacejobs.com/">
  <param name=title value="S P A C E  J O B S !">
  <font size=-1>You will need a Java capable browser to view this applet!</font>
  </applet>

The following subsections detail each of the parameters used to define the timer's behaviour:

The Clock Colours:

Values accepted are currently the prime colours that the Java language uses: black, blue, cyan, darkgray, gray, green, lightgray, magenta, orange, pink, red, white, and yellow. You can currently set the colours of the background, the frame and the colour of the digits as follows (in the same order and with default values shown):

<param name=backcolour value="black">
<param name=framecolour value="green">
<param name=ledcolour value="green">

Inclusion of Number of Days

You can specify whether the number of days should be displayed in the timer. The default is to not include the days. If you want to include the days you must specify a value for the days-digits parameter, e.g.:

  <param name=days-digits value=1>

Display Size Parameters

You must specify the width and height of the applet. These are fixed values due to the nature of the way the applet and Netscape/Java work. The applet height should remain at 58 and the width should either be 134 or 190 if you are including the days digits. Note the above example.

Title, language and URL Parameters

You can now specify the title that is displayed in the top bar of the applet. The language of the digit sub-titles can also be specified as well as the URL that the applet takes a user to when it receives a mouse press.

The title parameter works as follows:

  <param name=title value="S P A C E  J O B S !">

The URL parameter works as follows, and must be specified as an absolute location:

  <param name=href value="http://www.spacejobs.com/">

The lanaguage parameter works with either francais, espanol, norvege or sverige as the value parameters as follows:

<param name=language value="espanol">

I have only implemented 5 languages. I am interested to add more languages. Please send the translations for your favourite!

Target Time

This is the time you want to show the count down to. It is specified in Universal Time in order that clients around the world see the correct timing to your event. Time is specified using the year, month, date, hour, minute and second parameters. The peculiarities are the following:

• the year is (in this version) the number of years since 1900, e.g. 97 for 1997
• the month is a value from 0 to 11, e.g. a value of 4 indicates the month of May

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