TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;

TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 1;
TICKER_STYLE = "apTicker";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;

ticker_start();

function ticker_start() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("TICKER").style.width;
	var img = "<img src='ticker_space.gif' width="+TICKER_WIDTH+" height='0' />";

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<TABLE  cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><tr><td nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<span class='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>&nbsp;</SPAN>"+img+"</td></tr></table>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	// IE
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1 && navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<div nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+img+"<span class='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>this is the HTML</span>"+img+"</div>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	if(!tickerSupported) document.getElementById("TICKER").outerHTML = ""; else {
		document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth : 0;
		/*for(i=0;i<1;i++)
		{
			TICKER_CONTENT = TICKER_CONTENT + TICKER_CONTENT;
		}*/
		document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
		document.getElementById("TICKER").style.display="block";
		TICKER_tick();
	}
}

function TICKER_tick() {
	/* if not paused scrollLeft is either positive or negative times the speed */
	if(!TICKER_PAUSED) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft += TICKER_SPEED * (TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? -1 : 1);

	/* its scrolling from left to right and scrollLeft is a negative number, then scrollLeft is equal to the width of the text minus the width of the space */
	if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft <= 0) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth;


	/* if its scrolling from right to left and scrollLeft is greater than the width of all of the HTML from above minus the width of the space, then stop the scrolling?? */
	if(!TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0;

	//alert(document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth + " " + document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth + " " + document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft);
	window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick()", 30);
}