I got the idea for this applet from Ken Arnold's "fortune", a program I have under Linux. Some of the quotes in my file EnQuotes.txt come from there too...

Your HTML document should include something like this:

<APPLET CODEBASE="Java/Quote" CODE="Quote.class" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=100>
  <PARAM NAME=dataFile VALUE="EnQuotes.txt">
</APPLET>

Here is the list of the parameters recognized by this applet:

<APPLET CODE="Quote.class" WIDTH=400 HEIGHT=100>
  <PARAM NAME=dataFile VALUE="EnQuotes.txt">
  <PARAM NAME=typingDelay VALUE="200">
  <PARAM NAME=crDelay VALUE="2000">
  <PARAM NAME=keySound VALUE="audio/button_2.au">
  <PARAM NAME=spaceSound VALUE="audio/button_1.au">
  <PARAM NAME=returnSound VALUE="audio/return.au">
  <PARAM NAME=fontName VALUE="Helvetica">
  <PARAM NAME=fontStyle VALUE="2">
  <PARAM NAME=fontSize VALUE="24">
  <PARAM NAME=textColor VALUE="FFFFFF">
  <PARAM NAME=bgColor VALUE="0000FF">
</APPLET>

• dataFile

example:

<PARAM NAME=dataFile VALUE="Java/Quote/EnQuotes.txt">

VALUE is the relative path from Quote.class to the text file containing the quotes.

The format of this file is very simple:

- The first line indicates the number of quotes.
- Each quote begins with a '#' alone on its line.
 
Here is a small example file containing only four quotes: example.txt

This parameter is the only one that is required.

• typingDelay

example:

<PARAM NAME=typingDelay VALUE="200">

VALUE is the delay in milliseconds between each character.

Defaults to 100.

• crDelay

example:

<PARAM NAME=crDelay VALUE="2000">

VALUE is the delay in milliseconds used for the carriage return. Especially useful if you're going to use the returnSound parameter. This delay will then have to be set according to the length of the sound used.

Defaults to 1000.

• keySound

example:

<PARAM NAME=keySound VALUE="Java/Quote/audio/button_2.au">

VALUE is the relative path from Quote.class to the sound you want to use for ordinary keys.

Defaults to no sound.

• spaceSound

example:

<PARAM NAME=spaceSound VALUE="Java/Quote/audio/button_1.au">

VALUE is the relative path from Quote.class to the sound you want to use for the space bar.

Defaults to no sound.

• returnSound

example:

<PARAM NAME=returnSound VALUE="Java/Quote/audio/return.au">

VALUE is the relative path from Quote.class to the sound you want to use for the carriage return. You'll probably want to set the crDelay parameter so that this sound has time to finish playing before the applet starts typing the next line.

Defaults to no sound.

• fontName

example:

<PARAM NAME=fontName VALUE="Helvetica">

Defaults to TimesRoman.

• fontStyle

example:

<PARAM NAME=fontStyle VALUE="2">

VALUE is an integer in the range [0..3] with the following correspondence:
 

VALUE	Style
0	PLAIN
1	BOLD
2	ITALIC
3	BOLD + ITALIC

 

Defaults to 0.

• fontSize

example:

<PARAM NAME=fontSize VALUE="24">

Defaults to 12.

• textColor

example:

<PARAM NAME=textColor VALUE="FFFFFF">

VALUE is an int in hexadecimal (base 16).
The first two digits represent the value of the red component of the color.
The two middle digits represent the value of the green component of the color.
The last two digits represent the value of the blue component of the color.
Thus in the example above, the text is white.

Defaults to 000000 (black).

• bgColor

example:

<PARAM NAME=bgColor VALUE="0000FF">

VALUE is an int in hexadecimal (base 16).
The first two digits represent the value of the red component of the color.
The two middle digits represent the value of the green component of the color.
The last two digits represent the value of the blue component of the color.
Thus in the example above, the background is blue.

Defaults to FFFFFF (white).