//**************************************
//     
// Name: A Status Bar Scroller
// Description:A scroller is text which 
//     scrolls on the status bar of the browser
//     . Scrollers are very popular with JavaSc
//     ript authors (esp. newbies like ourselve
//     s) and equally unpopular with the rest o
//     f the Web community. (Found at:A beginne
//     r's guide to Javascript:http://www.geoci
//     ties.com/SiliconValley/Park/2554/scrolle
//     r.html)
// By: Found on the Web
//
// Assumes:How much programming does it 
//     take to create a scroller? Twenty lines,
//     to be exact, as you will see. But before
//     we go into the code, let us understand w
//     hat features of JavaScript makes the scr
//     oller possible.
First is the ability to write to the status bar using the window.status property like this:
window.status = "This will appear in the status bar"
The second is the setTimeout() function. this function takes two parameters. The first is a string specifying the JavaScript statement to be executed on triggering and the second is a number specifing time in milliseconds after which triggering occurs.
Our scroller is essentially a function which, on each invocation, moves the text on the scroll bar a little to the left and then calls setTimeout() to invoke itself after a small interval of time.
The only other function we use is substring() which is a method of the string object. if name="JavaScript", then name.substring(4,9) will return "Script". You get the general idea, right?
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//     

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT>
<!-- Start of scroller script
var scrollCounter = 0;
var scrollText= "Any text here";
var scrollDelay= 70;
var i = 0;
while (i ++ < 140)
	scrollText = " " + scrollText;
function Scroller()
    {
    	window.status = scrollText.substring(scrollCounter++, 
    			scrollText.length);
    	if (scrollCounter == scrollText.length) 
    	scrollCounter = 0;
    	setTimeout("Scroller()", scrollDelay);
}

Scroller();
// End of scroller script -->
</SCRIPT>