Referencing the Ticker Tape Applet
To pull the Davis Ticker into your web page, you need to specify its name, where to find it, and some criteria for how the browser should display it.  
The Davis Ticker Applet Configuration Wizard
You can also use the Davis Ticker Applet Configuration Wizard to generate the HTML code for your Ticker. 
•	The wizard is located in the Weather Support section of our web site: www.davisnet.com/support/weather/davisticker.asp. 
•	Select Support, and then scroll down to locate the link to the Davis Ticker Java Applet update and On-Line Configuration Wizard. 
•	Follow the instructions and the wizard will generate code you can copy and paste into your HTML file.
Sample HTML to call the Davis Ticker applet
Below is an example of one possible way to use the Davis Ticker applet:

<applet code="davisticker.class" width="650" Height= "40">
<param name="dataFile"     value="data.htm">
<param name="fps"          value="250">
<param name="dataInterval" value="60">
<param name="font"         value="sans-serif">
<param name="style"        value="PLAIN">
<param name="size"         value="15">
<param name="fontColor"    value="255,000,051">
<param name="borColor"     value="153,000,051">
<param name="borWidth"     value="4">
<param name="backColor"    value="000,000,051">
</applet>

To use the above example, simply cut and past the above tags into your web template page (.htx file).  If you would like to configure your own applet, you can use the tags described below or go to the Davis web site, www.davisnet.com, to use a unique applet code generator designed for the Davis Ticker.
  
<param name=DataFile> 	Specifies the path name of the data file that you want to display relative to the current web page (e.g.- "data.htm"). The file can be any file with ASCII text content.  See below if you want to put the data file in a different domain than where the web page is.
<param name=dataInterval> 	Sets the time interval in seconds for when the applet retrieves new data from the dataFile. This allows the message to be updated without refreshing the whole web page. Only applies of the dataFile parameter is used.
<param name=string value>	Sets the text to be displayed if no dataFile is specified, or if the dataFile cannot be found.
<param name=font value>	Sets the text font.
<param name=style value> 	Sets the font style. This can be "Plain", "Bold" or "Italic" .
<param name=size value>	Sets the font size.
<param name=fps value>	Frames per second. Used to set the rate of scrolling.
<param name=borWidth>	Sets the border width in pixels.
<param name=borColor> 	Sets the border color. Specify a color by using decimal Red, Green, and Blue values between 0 and 255, separated by commas.
<param name=backColor> 	Sets the color of the text background. Specify a color by using decimal Red, Green, and Blue values between 0 and 255, separated by commas.
<param name=fontColor> 	Sets the font color. Specify a color by using decimal Red, Green, and Blue values between 0 and 255, separated by commas.
If you want to place the dataFile on a different web domain than where the web page will appear (for example, if a single dataFile will be shared among different users), place the davisticker.class file in the same location as the dataFile and use the following HTML code in the web page. (In this example both the class file and the ticker data file are located at my.domain.org/tickerData/) :

<applet codebase="http://my.domain.org/tickerData/" code="davisticker.class" width="650" Height= "40">
<param name="dataFile"     value="data.htm">
... (Other parameters as desired )
</applet>

Applet Scrolling Speed
Several factors affect the scroll speed including:
•	The web browser 
•	The version of the Java virtual machine 
•	The operating system 
•	The size of the ticker display 
•	Whether the string or dataFile parameter is used, 
•	Whether the file is located on a local machine or is on the Internet, and 
•	The speed of the network connection.
For scroll rates greater than 200 fps, the text will scroll by more than one pixel when it is updated. 
The scrolling speed will slow down by a factor of three when the mouse cursor is on top of the applet. Normal scrolling speed will resume when the cursor is removed.
Multiple tickers on the same web page will run slower than a single ticker. The more tickers that appear, the slower they will run.