SLIDE STATUS - JAVASCRIPT

Sliding Status Bar Message
It's a bird, it's a plane -- no it's a sliding status bar message!
Your message slids along a letter at a time till complete then repeats.

Example:

Look below in your browser's
status bar.

Follow the editing instructions after the // and within the 
to customize the script, then copy and paste it into your HTML editor.

// You may edit the message below.

var startMsg = "Rainbow Arch - Scripts    ";

var str     = "";
var msg     = "";
var leftMsg = "";

function setMessage()
{
    if (msg == "")
    {
        str = " ";
        msg = startMsg;
        leftMsg = "";
    }

if (str.length == 1)
    {
        while (msg.substring(0, 1) == " ")
        {
            leftMsg = leftMsg + str;
            str = msg.substring(0, 1);
            msg = msg.substring(1, msg.length);
        }

leftMsg = leftMsg + str;
        str = msg.substring(0, 1);
        msg = msg.substring(1, msg.length);

for (var ii = 0; ii < 120; ii++)
        {
           str = " " + str;
        }
    }
    else
        str = str.substring(10, str.length);

window.status = leftMsg + str;
// This editable value (1000 = 1 second) 
// corresponds to the speed of the shooting
// message.
    timeout = window.setTimeout('setMessage()',100);

}
// -->
</script>

<BODY bgcolor="ffffff" onload="timeout = window.setTimeout('setMessage()',500);">