var news_line = new Array();
news_line.current = -1; // To provoke first call
news_line.freeze = 0; // Swapping allowed
news_line.delay = 5000; // Time delay between swapping in ms
// Put here the news lines (HTML tags allowed) ---------------------------------
// No lines: no news showed
// One line: static news line news_line[0]='...'
// More lines: news lines will swap news_line[0]='...', news_line[1]='...', ...
//
//news_line[0] = 'Fires on Canary Islands seen from space';
//news_line[0] = 'Forest fires on Greece seen from space';
//news_line[2] = '8-9 October 2007 - TEMIS user workshop at ESRIN, Italy';
//news_line[0] = 'TEMIS in the Scientific American';
news_line[1] = 'Ozone hole and UV radiation forecast bulletin';
//news_line[1] = 'Near Real Time GOME-2 tropospheric NO2 data';
//news_line[0] = 'TEMIS, the movie (on YouTube)';
//news_line[0] = 'Monitoring the SO2 plume from the Kasatochi volcano';
//news_line[0] = 'FRESCO+ for GOME-2 available';
news_line[0] = 'Information about the eruption of the Eyjafjalljokull volcano';
// Make code cross browser proof
function getObj(name)
{
if (document.getElementById)
{
this.obj = document.getElementById(name);
this.style = document.getElementById(name).style;
}
else if (document.all)
{
this.obj = document.all[name];
this.style = document.all[name].style;
}
else if (document.layers)
{
this.obj = document.layers[name];
this.style = document.layers[name];
}
}
function swap_news() {
if(news_line.length==0) // No news: exit
return;
if(news_line.current==-1) // First call: Put 'NEWS' caption
{
var newscaption = new getObj('newscaption');
newscaption.obj.innerHTML = 'NEWS: ';
}
if(!news_line.freeze) // Change content only if mouse is not above news bar
{
news_line.current ++;
if(news_line.current > news_line.length-1)
news_line.current = 0;
var newsline = new getObj('newsline');
newsline.obj.innerHTML = news_line[news_line.current];
}
if (news_line.length>1) // Recursive call with time delay
setTimeout("swap_news();",news_line.delay);
}