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Java applets and Applications. This is what this page is all about. All applets have been written by me(George Eleftheriou) and you have the right to use them free of charge for NON-commercial use. For use on commercial sites the purchase of a license is required. The only exception are the applets belonging to category VARIOUS. Applets belonging to the above category can be used in Commercial Sites without fee. If you want to use any of these applets on a commercial site click here. If you want to use them for non commercial sites(like your personal web page) click here. There is also a faq page. All applets have been tested with Netscape 3.04, Netscape Communicator 4.04 and Internet Explorer 4.

What's new? Horizontal Scrollers Vertical Scrollers Omni Scrollers

TextMenu TypeWriters Image Menu Image Fader

Drop one by one Drop Scroll one by one Faders GeoBanner

Menu Applet Various Other applets Applications

What's new?

• TextMenu Applet: has a sticky option (20/09/98)
• VScrollerTypeWriter Applet: has undergone a major update.Many new features (18/09/98)
• DropScrollOnebyOne Applet: An applet that combines scroll and drop applet in one.(15/09/98)
• OmniScroller Applet: An applet that scrolls text in any direction.Text can come in and out from different directions.(13/09/98)
• GeoBanner Applet: An applet for creating cool banners (updated12/09/98)
• TextMenu Applet now supports, in addition to center, left and right alignment.
• MenuApplet now supports, in addition to center, left and right alignment.
• RGB applet You can now select colors from a list, use scrollbars, or enter hex or decimal RGB values. (updated12/09/98)

Horizontal Scrollers

• Horizontal Scroller 1 : A horizontal scroller that displays arbritrary number of text messages one after the other. Each text message can be associated with a URL. You can customize text messages, font size, font style font name, speed, background and foreground color. (Last updated 09/09/98)
• Horizontal Scroller 2 : A horizontal scroller that displays arbritrary number of text messages one after the other. The strings sweep the applet and stay on the center for a specified time. Each text message can be associated with a URL. You can customize strings, font size, font style font name, background and foreground color. (Last updated 09/09/98)

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Vertical Scrollers

• Vertical Scroller : A Verical scroller that scrolls multiple lines of text one after the other. Each text message stays at the center for a specified time and can be associated with a URL. You can customize text, fontsize, fontname, font style, background and foreground color, the scrolling speed and the delay when each strings centers. (Last updated 09/09/98)
• A multiple line Vertical Scroller Fully customizable. Text automatically wraps at borders. You can specify FontSize, FontName, FontStyle, Applet size, Background, Foreground, border color and of course the scrolling text.(Last updated 09/09/98)
• VScrollerTypeWriter applet A multiple line vertical scroller. Each line appears as being written in a typewriter. Text automatically wraps at borders. You can specify FontSize, FontName, FontStyle, Applet size, Background, Foreground, border color and of course the scrolling text. It reads the text from a txt file and you can turn off wrappinng if you like. Optional Sound support and support for a background image. Now different parts of text can have their own font name, size, color. Each text can have its own url link. This applet has won the "Applet of the week logo" 28/08/98 at java boutique.(Last updated 19/09/98)

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Omni Scrollers

• Omniscroller2 applet : Omni Scroller 2 applet is a small and fast loading applet that scrolls arbritrary number of text messages in any of the four directions: UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, or makes text fade in and out. Text can come in and out from different directions and stays centered for a specified time. This applet can behave as a horizontal or vertical applet or fade in out applet, or as a combination of the above. Each text message can be associated with a URL. Font size, font name, font style, background and text color, speed of scrolling are fully customizable. (13/09/98)

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Faders

• FadesInOut Applet : An applet that displays arbitrary number of quotes fading in and out . You can specify your own quotes, font name, font size, font style, speed of fading, background and foreground color. (Last updated 09/09/98)
• FadesInOutURL Applet : An applet that displays arbitrary number strings fading in and out . Each string is connected with a URL and if you click on the applet a new page will appear at the target window that you specify. You can specify your own strings, URLs, font name, font size, speed of fading, background and foreground color. (Last updated 09/09/98)

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TypeWriters

• A typewriter applet : The text appears as written in a typewriter but supports arbritrary number of strings and URLs. You can customize strings, URLs, fontsize, fontname, speed, background and foreground color. There is also sound support. (Last updated 09/09/98)

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Text Menu Applet

• Text Menu Applet : Now you can create quickly and easily cool menus without creating pictures. This applet accepts an arbitrary number of strings and URLs and creates a menu either horizontal or vertical. Each menu item can be aligned center, left or right. Fully configurable. This applet has won the "Applet of the week logo" 04/09/98 at java boutique.(Updated 20/09/98)

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Image Menu Applet

• Image Menu l: Create a menu either horizontal or vertical with images and links that you specify.(Last updated 09/09/98)
• Image Menu 2: Create a menu either horizontal or vertical with images and links that you specify. When the mouse is over an image a second image takes its place. When you press the mouse button a third image can appear for as long as you have the mouse pressed. Also if you declare the menu sticky, the third image will not change until you press on another image. Four examples included, two with sticky menus and two without sticky menus.(Last updated 09/09/98)

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Image Fader

• An Image Fader: An image fades in and out. You can customize the image and the speed of fading and associate a URL link.(Last updated 09/09/98)

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Drop one by one

• Drop One by One Each letter is dropped on the applet and then the whole message fades out. You can associate a link with each string. Font name, style, size, background and foreground colors customizable. Optional sound support.(Last updated 09/09/98)

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Scroll one by one

• DropScrollOnebyOne applet I created this applet combining Drop and Scroll one by one applets. I removed scroll one by one from the list, but I left drop one by one, because although this new applet is the same, it doesn't have sound support. This applet has the same performance as the other two and it is only 400bytes bigger in size, total 7.5Kbytes. Each letter is letter is scrolled horizontally or vertically before it reaches its position and then the whole message fades out. You can associate a link with each string. Font name, style, size, background and foreground colors customizable.The two applets(drop and scroll) will soon be one.(updated 15/09/98)

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GeoBanner

• GeoBanner Applet : An applet that accepts arbitrary number of strings and displays them gradually from center to the edges. The next string appears gradually on top of the previous one.

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Menu Applet

• Menu Applet : Another quality applet that accepts arbitrary number of strings and creates a horizontal or vertical menu. You can customize strings, urls, font size, font name, foreground and background color. Playing with background and foreground colors you can create some really cool effects. See the link above for examples. (Updated 10/09/98) You can now control the alignment of text.

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Various

• RGB applet : An applet that can help you choose colors easily and quickly selecting colors from a list, using scrollbars, or entering numbers in text fields. It also performs automatic conversion from hexadecimal values to decimal values and vice versa. (Updated 12/09/98 and works without problems on all browsers)
• Wave Text Another quality applet that makes text wave. Many parameters to cut it out to your needs. (27/08/98)
• Window Scroller A window srolls over custom messages. Each message can be associated with a URL link
• Transparent Pic An applet that creates a transparent image and scrolls it over an image that is loaded from the web.
• Expand Text Applet : This applet shows a string that progressively expands until it becomes totally visible. You can customize text, fontsize, fontname, background and foreground color and speed of expansion.
• Message Applet : An applet that displays a greeting message according to the time of day. You can specify your own quotes, FontName, FontSize, background and foreground color and FontStyle. IE4 sometimes displays wrong message but Netscape works fine.
• RandomChars applet : Another sophisticated applet that displays the chars of a message randomly on the screen. You can customize string, fontsize, fontname, background and foreground color.
• Rainbow Color Text Applet : An applet that displays a customized message using the colors of the rainbow and giving the impression that colors scroll. (Updated 01/09/98 and now works without problems on all browsers)
• PropFontIP applet : An applet that shows you the properties, the fonts and your IP address. Useful for checking you Java version and the fonts available on your browser.
• Bouncing Fonts: Bouncing Fonts. You can customize text, fontsize, fontname, background and foreground color.
• CountDown applet : This applet counts down to a specific date with good accuracy.I say good because it assumes that each month has 30.4 days.(This is an average value) You can customize fontsize, fontname, background and foreground color and the date.

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Some other applets, not for downloading

• An image Filter This applet loads a picture and applies a filter that extends RGBImageFilter. Note: Netscape sometimes throws an unjustified security exception error.
• An interactive FFT applet
• javaQuiz: (updated 5/06/1998)This is a java quiz. Please note that this application/applet(it's written both as an application and as an applet) requires a browser that supports java 1.1. (Note1: this applet is composed of many classes, if it doesn't start, reload it.).
  If you prefer to view it as a jar file click here(This will be faster since your browser will make only one connection to the site).
  
• Finger Applet!!!(8/06/98)Look who is logged in server egnatia!!! Small bug corrected (13/09/98). Requires a java 1.1 compatible browser.

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Geo Java Applications

• A finger java client: Download the class and then run it.
• A DNS query java client: Download the class and then run it.
• Java IDE (updated 20/09/98, TextArea bug corrected) This is an Application that is an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for JAVA. It is completely written in Java 1.1. Download the zip file that contains instructions and the jar file with all the classes. Of course don't expect an IDE like the ones from Sun or Borland, but it is a small (60k) and decent one.

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Page last updated 20/09/98

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