When a developer feels playful, then strange applets may come into existence. This is one of those applets.

Colors and background image

The background image will be used instead of the background color. Leave this field blank if you want to use the background color setting instead. Use the compression setting to decrease the SWF file size. If you do not have a background image, then the effect will still work just fine. Use the shade color to set the shade of the text and use the cut color to set the color of the "cutting line" which later expands and displaces the background image

Entering messages and URLs

Make sure you have the same amount of URLs as you have messages. Enter each message in it's own line. See the section Entering Text Or Files for more information.

Fonts

Here you can here specify the text size (in pixels) and the font. This applet supports FFT files.

Movement settings

The speed will set the movement speed of the text. The Rotation setting will set the speed of the oscillating text and radius is the maximum angle of the oscillating movement.

Limitations

Due to a limitation in Flash Player 5.0, you can have a maximum of only 200 messages in the Flash applet. More than that, and the applet will not work.

Other settings

There are other settings that are discussed on the following topics from the Advanced Effect Maker documentation:

The Flash Applet Size Parameters
Working With Text Fields
Entering Text Or Files
Working with fonts
Working With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Color Buttons
Compression Ratios for images

Anibal Wainstein