// Variables for scrolling text script
/*  
Script made by Bill Lane © 2002 www.blane.vze.com
This script may be used and changed freely as long as this msg is intact
*/
//The purpose of this script is to scroll news items from bottom to top with the message changing each time.  It is capable of rotating any number of messages as long as the number is stated in this script as totalNumMessages.  Each individual message is comprised of a title, it's message and a link (in the format of title1, title2 ...title200).  Even if you don't need all components of a message it is still important to define all variables just set them equall to " ".
var totalNumMessages = 6;				//how many messages you want
var currentMessage = 2;					//the message to show first
//-----------------------------------------------------------------
										//the content - add more as required
var title1 = "New Mindstorms SDK";
var message1 = "Includes detailed Spybot pdf";
var link1 = "05000.htm#LegoSDK"
var title6 = "NQC update";
var message6 = "Dave Baum's latest release";
var link6 = "05000.htm#NQC"
var title3 = "MacNQC";
var message3 = "MacNQC 4.0b1 released";
var link3 = "05000.htm#macNQC4"
var title4 = "NQC API update";
var message4 = "John Hansen updates NQC API";
var link4 = "05000.htm#spyAPI1003"
var title5 = "Bricx CC update";
var message5 = "Version  3.3.7.7 released";
var link5 = "05000.htm#BricxCC"
var title2 = "Simon For Spybot";
var message2 = "New user created spybot mission! ";
var link2 = "03013.htm"
										//end content
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var timeoutSpeed = 1;					//how often the message position changes
var speed = -1;							//how far the message moves at startup
var acc = 0.5;							// rate of accelleration of message
var messagePause = 240;					//how long it stops to be read
var NS7pause = 800						//how long the pause should be in netscape 7
var NS7acc = 0.2;
var NS7timeoutSpeed = 10;						//how often position changes for netscape 7
var restPos = 200;						//position in pixels where it should pause
var startPos = 400;						//where the message first appears
var leftPos = 700;						//how far from left of browser the message will be
var topPos = 122;							//how close to the top will it be
var coverWidth = 155;					//how wide is topCover and bottomCover layers
var coverHeight = 70;					//how high is topCover and bottomCover layers
var messageWidth = 135;					//how wide is the message layer
var menuFixedPos = 0;					//is the scrolling menu in a constant distance from
										// the left edge.  If the page has a stretchy
										// structure using percents rather than pixels then
										// the menus position will be related to the right
										// edge rather than the left.  In that case set this
										// value to 0