Firstly in case your wondering the status window in the one at the bottom of the page which normally show link info etc.
If you view page source this is what you'll see, why I don't know, but if you want to get scrolling status window text you'll have to use a text edit or it won't work.
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="nik">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.05 [en] (Win16; I) [Netscape]">
<TITLE>Scrolling Status Window Text</TITLE>
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<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FFFF00" onLoad="timerONE=window.setTimeout('scroll(100)',500);">Now this is what the file really looks like in a text editor. I've highlighted in red the 2 important areas the first one
var m1 = " You Too Can Have Scrolling Text Down Here And It's Easy ";
This is where you actually put your scrolling text, don't worry about the length I have a very long one on the main index page, probably the only problem is people aren't going to stick around to long to read it all.
The Second one is in the body text, if you don't add this it won't do anything
<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FFFF00" onLoad="timerONE=window.setTimeout('scroll(100)',500);">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="nik">
<META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Mozilla/4.05 [en] (Win16; I) [Netscape]">
<TITLE>Scrolling Status Window Text</TITLE>
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<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">
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function scroll(seed)
{
var m1 = " You Too Can Have Scrolling Text Down Here And It's Easy ";
var msg=m1;
var out = " ";
var c = 1;
if (seed > 100) {
seed--;
var cmd="scroll(" + seed + ")";
timerTwo=window.setTimeout(cmd,100);
}
else if (seed <= 100 && seed > 0) {
for (c=0 ; c < seed ; c++) {
out+=" ";
}
out+=msg;
seed--;
var cmd="scroll(" + seed + ")";
window.status=out;
timerTwo=window.setTimeout(cmd,100);
}
else if (seed <= 0) {
if (-seed < msg.length) {
out+=msg.substring(-seed,msg.length);
seed--;
var cmd="scroll(" + seed + ")";
window.status=out;
timerTwo=window.setTimeout(cmd,100);
}
else {
window.status=" ";
timerTwo=window.setTimeout("scroll(100)",75);
}
}
}
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</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY TEXT="#000000" BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC" LINK="#0000EE" VLINK="#551A8B" ALINK="#FFFF00" onLoad="timerONE=window.setTimeout('scroll(100)',500);">