Use this flashing lights effect to highlight certain important announcements, news, etc. in your web page. The text here is interactive and can be clicked to follow hyperlinks as specified. This applet can also be used as an advertising banner.

Choosing and selecting Size

You can chose the size of the applet in the "general" page. Also you can choose a name for the .swf file that would be generated.

Important: for a successful display, we recommend to use the same size for height and width.

Color

By clicking on "color" it will be possible to set the background color, the color of the light that would flash and the color of the text that would be highlighted.

Font

You can choose the font type and specify its size in the 'Font' tab.

Messages:

In the 'Messages' tab you have two windows. One is to enter the messages that you want to highlight. The hyperlink on click of the text is to be specified in the other window.

Lights:

In this tab, you have to specify the density of horizontal and vertical lights that flash in the output. In the flash delay window you have to specify the number of flashes that the lights make at one given time. The value that is input in the flashing lights window specifies the number of lights that flash at one time.

Other settings

You can select the compression Ratio and the background image in 'other settings' tab. The target frame on click of any hyperlink is also set here. The pause between transitions, measured in milliseconds is specified in the pause window.

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

Working With Text Fields
Working With File Fields And File Lists
Working With Color Buttons
The Flash Applet Size Parameters
Working with fonts