//Cross Fading News Ticker - Copyright (c) 2002, Nick Radford

NewsDelay=3000		//Time each story is displayed for
NewsFadeDelay=800	//Time taken to fade from one story to the next
NewsFont='Verdana'	//Ticket font family
NewsFontSize='1'	//Ticket font size
NewsStory=0		//Working Variable
LastNewsStory=0		//Working Variable
NewsColor=0		//Working Variable

NewsTextColor=new Array("#CCCCCC","#C7C8CA","#BCC0C5","#B0B7BE","#A1ACB6","#919FAE","#8092A5","#6E859D","#5B7793","#4A6A8A","#385D82","#28517A","#194673","#0D3D6D","#033667","#003366")

/*
NewsArray=new Array(
	'Cross Fading News Ticker' , 'http://www.URL1.com',
	'Place any text you want into the JavaScript array at the top of this script' , 'http://www.URL2.com',
	'And this script will smoothly fade from one text entry...' , 'http://www.URL3.com',
	'Into the next one..!' , 'http://www.URL4.com',
	'You can also define hyperlinks for each ticker entry' , 'http://www.URL5.com',
	'Cross browser compatible : IE 4+, Netscape 4.7/6+' , 'http://www.URL6.com',
	'If you have an apostrophe \', you need to use an escape character \'\\\' ',
	'')
*/

	function DisplayNews(){
		LastNewsStory=NewsStory
    	NewsStory++; if( NewsStory>(Math.floor(NewsArray.length/2)) ){NewsStory=1}
    	FadeNews()
}


    function FadeNews(){
    	if (NewsColor<(NewsTextColor.length)/2){var NewsLayer=1}
    	else {var NewsLayer=2}
    	//Old Story

        	if (LastNewsStory>0){
        		var NewsText = '<b class="marquee">NEWS : </b><a href="'+ NewsArray[(LastNewsStory-1)*2+1] +'"><font color="'+ NewsTextColor[NewsColor] +'" face="'+ NewsFont +'" size="'+ NewsFontSize +'">'+ NewsArray[(LastNewsStory-1)*2] +'</font></a>'
        			if(document.layers){ document.eval('newslayer'+(3-NewsLayer)).document.write(NewsText); document.eval('newslayer'+(3-NewsLayer)).document.close() }//NN4
        			if(document.all){ eval('newslayer'+(3-NewsLayer)).innerHTML=NewsText }//IE
        			if(!document.all && document.getElementById){ document.getElementById('newslayer'+(3-NewsLayer)).innerHTML=NewsText }//NN6
        	}
        	//New Story
        		var NewsText = '<b class="marquee">NEWS : </b><a href="'+ NewsArray[(NewsStory-1)*2+1] +'"><font color="'+ NewsTextColor[(NewsTextColor.length)-NewsColor-1] +'" face="'+ NewsFont +'" size="'+ NewsFontSize +'">'+ NewsArray[(NewsStory-1)*2] +'</font></a>'
        			if(document.layers){ document.eval('newslayer'+NewsLayer).document.write(NewsText); document.eval('newslayer'+NewsLayer).document.close() }//NN4
        			if(document.all){ eval('newslayer'+NewsLayer).innerHTML=NewsText }//IE
        			if(!document.all && document.getElementById){ document.getElementById('newslayer'+NewsLayer).innerHTML=NewsText; }//NN6
        	NewsColor++
        	if (NewsColor>=NewsTextColor.length){ NewsColor=0; setTimeout('DisplayNews()',NewsDelay) }
        	else { setTimeout('FadeNews()',NewsFadeDelay/NewsTextColor.length) }
    }