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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art.animation, 22 Jul 1997.
Re: How to make Javascript ascii animations (WAS:Re: Yep..th

Re: How to make Javascript ascii animations (WAS:Re: Yep..this is actually some ascii art not sex junk..)

llizard wrote:
[ 8< ]

> Okay how about this for really complicated?!
> 

Nice! :)

> If you want to examine any animations you see on the web, save them as
> text documents and you will see all the coding. That's what I have done.
> However, here is the template you can copy and paste into a text
> document (notepad on a PC; I don't know the equivalent name for Mac):
> 
> .................Copy between dotted lines..........................
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
>     <TITLE>your title here</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <script language="JavaScript">
> 
>     var max=0;
>     function tlist(){ max=tlist.arguments.length;
>         for(i=0;i<max;i++) this[i]=tlist.arguments[i];
>     }
> 
>     tl = new tlist(
> 
> "                                          ,^ \n"+
> "                    -----%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   \n"+
> "                     ha /     \"   \"        \n"+
> "                       /                       ",
> 
> "                                          ,^ \n"+
> "                 ha -----%^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   \n"+
> "                        /     \"   \"        \n"+
> "                       /                       "
> 
>     );
>     var x=0;
>     function tick() {
>         document.f.t.value=tl[x];
>         x++; if(x==max) x=0;
>         //if(confirm('continue?'))
>             setTimeout("tick()",70);
>     }
>     //-->
> 
> </script>
> 
> <BODY onload="tick()">
> <FORM NAME=f><TEXTAREA NAME=t ROWS=4 COLS=60></TEXTAREA></FORM>
> 
> </BODY>
> 
> </HTML>
> ............................end copy..........................

Maybe you should have one more frame in the animation, so that the comma
after all frames except the last one becomes more obvious?

[ 8< ]
> It's also a good idea to replace any < in your drawing with with &lt;
> (ampersand, lowercase l, lowercase t, semicolon) and any > in your
> drawing with &gt; (ampersand, lowercase g, lowercase t, semicolon)
> Sometimes the program gets confused if it sees these symbols < >

Is this really true for the animations? Don't those show up as &lt; and
&gt; in the animations? Are you sure you are not confusing the
animations with html?

[ 8< ]
> I hope these instructions were detailed enough and/or not too detailed
> and that you can now go nuts making your own animations. Have fun and be
> forewarned; it's really time consuming.

How nice of you to warn us :D

> 
> Also, java script animations can only be viewed with Netscape 3.0 that
> has java enabled and I gather that unless one has Netscape Navigator,
> animations over 750 lines long won't work.

Very important! (did I miss that one in my description?)

-- 
:)
Veronica Karlsson
( e93...@sm.luth.se  http://www.ludd.luth.se/~vk/ )

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