NEWS & QUOTES TICKER APPLET is the perfect browser embeddable tool that you can enhance your web site by showing live RSS news or stock market quotes in a rotating ticker tyou can enhance your web site by showing live RSS news or stock market quotes in a rotating ticker tape that you can customize with many features.
This ticker can function either as a RSS news ticker or as quotes ticker with a single instance, and also more instances of the applet HTML code can be used in the same web page.
This is a Java™ Applet, therefore it works on every Java™ compatible browser.
DATA SOURCE: the applet gets data from scripts placed on the same server via HTTP calls. We offer two free fully functional PHP scripts for quotes and RSS news:
- quotes script is a sample script that generates random data and can be easily integrated with your quote data feed
- RSS news script can parse any RSS feed and output news titles and links. To set a specific RSS feed you just need to edit the first line in the script to enter RSS feed URL
Features:
- permanent connection to the data feed: the applet connects to an URL to get data at repetitive periods; you can set how long to wait between two consecutive calls;
- customizable colors, fonts and sizes: colors and speed can be set from applet parameters; the fonts are limited to JVM set; width and height also are configurable.
- border: you can set border color and width, or you can use no border;
- speed rotation and orientation: you can set rotation speed and rotation from applet parameters. Optionally, you can show direction button at the right size of the ticker.
- online customizer: customize parameters of this applet and generate HTML code online;
- title section: ticker can show a still title label with custom font and colors at the left side of the ticker. Also this area can be clicked and browser opened with a link that is set from applet parameters.
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