Ticker

The ticker is a scrolling text message area at the bottom of the applet display which can be used to send messages to users. It is clickable and can be set to send a user to a specific URL when clicked. It can be hidden on startup by setting the "showticker" applet param to "false". Startup messages can be provided using the "ticker" to "ticker9" applet params.

Format of the ticker messages: A simple message that is non-clickable and uses the default tickerspeed, tickerpause, tickerlifetime, and tickerrepeat: ticker="This is a simple message"

A complex message uses an HTML-formatted string with various settings. The settings are specified using tags. The setting and value must be specified like:
= with no spaces around the "=" character. The format of the string is: <a tag1=value1 tag2=value2 ... >Text that is shown in the ticker</a>

The settings tags available are:
href - URL this ticker message will send the user to if clicked
speed - time in milliseconds the ticker pauses between each tick
pause - time the ticker pauses when the message reaches the left edge
lifetime - time the ticker stays active in the message queue, 0 means indefinitely repeat number of times the message repeats (including the initial showing) before being removed, 0 means indefinitely pri priority of the message. if set 'false', the message is simply added to the message queue if set 'true' the message is shown immediately in the ticker the default is false times are specified by: actual milliseconds seconds - number of seconds followed by an 's' character - Example: 5s
minutes - number of minutes followed by an 'm' character - Example: 5m

Example:
ticker="<a href=http://www.webmaster.com/updates.htm speed=20 repeat=10 lifetime=10m>Go to Webmaster.com for ConferenceRoom updates!</a>" would be the ticker message "Go to..." at a slightly faster speed than default, repeating 10 times or for 10 minutes, expiring whichever comes first, at a normal priority

Ticker messages may also be specified in NewsFlashes by an IRC Admin using the /nflash command. The format is the same as the ticker applet params:
/nflash <a href=http://www.webmaster.com/updates.htm speed=20 repeat=10 lifetime=10m>Go to Webmaster...</a>

The NFLASH command can be used on the scroller/sub-banner that Java clients will see at the bottom of their chat window applet. These parameters are used by the scroller. (default values in parenthesis):
speed=## _milliseconds_ to pause while scooting the text (30)
pause=## milliseconds, or can specify larger times (3000)
lifetime=## milliseconds again (300000)
repeat=## number of times to repeat
href= URL

The leftover text after the parameters are closed with > and before the (which happens to be optional) is what will be displayed it will expire at lifetime or repeat, whichever comes first

The times sequence works as follows: if a number only, like 600000, it assumes milliseconds. That example would be 10 minutes number + s is seconds, so it gets it's milliseconds as number*1000.
example: 5s is 5000ms

number + m is minutes, number*60000
example: 5m is 300000ms

Milliseconds are how waits work in Java.

Pri which is boolean. That sets priority of a new flash. It's set to true by default, so if not specified, any flash will "interrupt this broadcast" so to speak, and immediately go to the front, regardless of what's showing.

Plain text, no URL, nothing fancy at all, uses all the default settings:
/nflash This is a test of NewsFlash Technology.

Fast scrolling, sit there 10 secs, with URL:
/nflash <a speed=10 pause=10s href=http://newsextra.com/breakingstory/1111111.html>Early Clinton video discovered in Gingrich's office!</a>

Slow scrolling, 2 sec sit time, repeat twice, with URL:
/nflash <a href=http://www.joesdiner.com speed=50 pause=2s repeat=2>Eat at Joe's</a> repeat maximum of 5 times or 5 minutes, whichever first: /nflash There is a blue Pinto full of chickens out in the parking lot on fire

Note The defaults parameters for tickerspeed=30, tickerpause=3s, tickerlifetime=0 this parameter means that it will be non expiring. Tickerrepeat=0 which means it will not stop repeating. Those are defaults which you can change in your default.prm file.