**** "ShimmerText" java-applet ****

Description:
              
The Shimmertext applet displays the edge of a chosen title in a chosen
color and the surrounding space of the text will start to shimmer in
a chosen color. You can also configure how big the maximum and minimum 
glowing area will be.

Configuration:

* "foreground" (hexadecimal color value) The text color.
* "background" (hexadecimal color value) The background color.
* "lightupcolor" (hexadecimal color value) The color of the glowing area.

* "font" ("Helvetica", "TimesRoman", "Courier", "Dialog", "ZapfDingbats") The 
  font type.
* "fontsize" (integer number) Font size.
* "bold" ("yes","no") If the textstyle should be bold.
* "italic" ("yes","no") If the textstyle should be italic.

* "textdelay" (integer number) Time showing the text, in ms.
* "delay" (integer number) Sets the time for a single step, in ms.

* "interations" (integer number) Sets the width of the glowing area, in
  number of pixels from the text.
* "interationstart" (integer number) Sets the minimum width of the glowing
  area, before it starts to grow again.

* "image" (text) Name of an image. Note that the part of the image that is the same as
  the specified "background" color willl be transparent.
* "imagex" (integer number) The x-position of the upper left corner of the image.
* "imagey" (integer number) The y-position of the upper left corner of the image. Note
  that y starts with zero from the top and increasing values get further down.
* "imagebefore" ("yes","no") If the image will be before or after the text.
* "smother" ("yes","no") Gives somewhat smother effect if set to "yes".
* "shimmerspeed" (integer number) The speed of the growing shimmering.
* "highlightwithin" ("yes","no") If the text and image should be highlighted in the
  area different from the "background" color. This slows up the speed considerably, so
  be sure to use smaller images when this parameter is set to "yes".

* "edgetext" ("yes","no") If only the edge of the text should be shown.

* "itemxx" (text) A message item.


Here is a sample HTML-configuration with recommended values:

<applet CODE="shimmertext.class" WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="120">
  <param name="foreground" value="007f7f">
  <param name="background" value="000000">
  <param name="lightupcolor" value="00ffff">
  <param name="font" value="TimesRoman">
  <param name="fontsize" value="40">
  <param name="italic" value="no">
  <param name="bold" value="yes">
  <param name="delay" value="30">
  <param name="textdelay" value="0">
  <param name="image" value="buttrfly.gif">
  <param name="imagex" value="13">
  <param name="imagey" value="10">
  <param name="imagebefore" value="no">
  <param name="iterations" value="48">
  <param name="iterationstart" value="0">
  <param name="smother" value="yes">
  <param name="shimmerspeed" value="3">
  <param name="edgetext" value="no">
  <param name="highlightwithin" value="yes">
  <param name="text" value="Shimmer Text">
</applet>