// Ticker startup
function startTicker()
{
	// Define run time values
	theCurrentStory     = -1;
	theCurrentLength    = 0;
	// Locate base objects
	if (document.getElementById) {	
		    theAnchorObject     = document.getElementById("tickerAnchor");
			runTheTicker();   	
		 }
	else {
            document.write("<style>.text{display:none;}.greenSmallText{border:0px; padding:0px;}</style>");
            return true;
	}
}

// Ticker main run loop
function runTheTicker()
{
	var myTimeout;  
	// Go for the next story data block
	if(theCurrentLength == 0)
	{
		theCurrentStory++;
		theCurrentStory      = theCurrentStory % theItemCount;
		theStorySummary      = theSummaries[theCurrentStory].replace(/&quot;/g,'"');		
		theTargetLink        = theSiteLinks[theCurrentStory];
		theAnchorObject.href = theTargetLink;
		thePrefix 	     = "<span>" + theLeadString + "</span>";
	}
	// Stuff the current ticker text into the anchor
	theAnchorObject.innerHTML = thePrefix + 
	theStorySummary.substring(0,theCurrentLength) + whatWidget();
	// Modify the length for the substring and define the timer
	if(theCurrentLength != theStorySummary.length)
	{
		theCurrentLength++;
		myTimeout = theCharacterTimeout;
	}
	else
	{
		theCurrentLength = 0;
		myTimeout = theStoryTimeout;
	}
	// Call up the next cycle of the ticker
	setTimeout("runTheTicker()", myTimeout);
}

// Widget generator
function whatWidget()
{
	if(theCurrentLength == theStorySummary.length)
	{
		return theWidgetNone;
	}

	if((theCurrentLength % 2) == 1)
	{
		return theWidgetOne;
	}
	else
	{
		return theWidgetTwo;
	}
}


function createClass()
{
if ((document.getElementById) && (document.body.innerHTML)) {
	document.write("<div class='greenSmallText'>");
	}
else {
	document.write("<div class='greentext'>");
	}
}


		function keyPress(e, formname){
			var keynum
			
			if(window.event) // IE
			{
				keynum = e.keyCode
				if(keynum == 13){
					//eval("checkform_"+formname+"();");
					return false;
				}
			}
			else if(e.which) // Netscape/Firefox/Opera
			{
				keynum = e.which
				if(keynum == 13){
					//eval("checkform_"+formname+"();");
					return false;
				}
			}
		}

		function isEmailAddress(email)
		{
		  var result = false;
		  var theStr = new String(email);
		  var index = theStr.indexOf("@"); 
		   if (index > 0) 
		    {
			    var pindex = theStr.indexOf(".",index);
				if ((pindex > index+1) && (theStr.length > pindex+1))
					result = true; 
			 } 
			  return result;
		}

function openWindow(page, win_width, win_height){
	
	var scrollbars = 'no';
	
	if(win_width > 800 || win_height > 600){
		scrollbars = 'yes';
		if(win_height >= win_width){
			win_height = 600;
		}
		win_width = win_width + 20;
	}
	
	MyWindow=window.open(page,'_blank','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars='+scrollbars+',resizable=yes,width='+win_width+',height='+win_height+''); 
}




function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
  var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}

function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
  var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
    var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i>a.length; i++)
    if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.0
  var p,i,x;  if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
    d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
  if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
  for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i>d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
  if(!x && document.getElementById) x=document.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
  var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
   if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}