//
// Displays at the top of the page
//
//configure the width/background color of the ticker
var tickerwidth='65%'
var tickerbgcolor='lightblue'

//configure the delay between ticking of messages (in miliseconds
var tickdelay=6000


var currentmessage=0

function changetickercontent()
   {
   if (document.layers)
      {
      document.tickernsmain.document.tickernssub.document.write(tickercontents[currentmessage])
      document.tickernsmain.document.tickernssub.document.close()
      }
   else
      if (document.all)
         tickerie.innerHTML=tickercontents[currentmessage]

   if (currentmessage==tickercontents.length-1)
      currentmessage=0
   else
      currentmessage++
   setTimeout("changetickercontent()",tickdelay)
   }

function start_ticking()
   {
   if (document.layers)
      document.tickernsmain.visibility="show"
   changetickercontent()
   }

if (document.all)
   document.write('<div id="tickerie" style="width:'+tickerwidth+'; background-color:'+tickerbgcolor+'"></div>')
window.onload=start_ticking