// the list of billboard strings to display
var aBillboardItems = new Array(
"Steve M - One of your best yet. Very well presented! I look forward to seeing each issue. You do a nice job keeping us all informed.",
"Joe M - As always, well done. I have a condo association meeting on Sunday and I will bring copies of this with me to hand out to the members.",
"Scott N - As I've said before, you are the Hemmingway of real estate writing. You present the facts very well. And I should know. I was an English major (you must have been too).",
"Peter S - As I've said before Dave with all the activity going on in the stock market, housing, etc., your most recent newsletter I'm sure was a challenge to write. Your comments/predictions are very well presented and thought out.",
"James M - Again a really well written newsletter regardless of the industry. Hang in there. We are doing 09 business planning now and my crystal ball couldn't be fuzzier."
);
// the string number to start with (0 is first)
var iCurItem = 0;
// the numbers of items to display. if this is "null" then the browser
// is really old and we should do nothing
var iNumItems = aBillboardItems.length;
// the length (in milliseconds) for which each item will be displayed
var iDelayMilliseconds = 6000;
// test to see if the browser is IE4 or above
var browserName = navigator.appName;
var browserVer = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
var browserIE4 = ((browserName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && (browserVer >= 4));
// if the browser isn't IE4+ then we'll need to remove any HTML from our
// billboard strings. We can use the function stripHTML to do this
if ((!(browserIE4)) && (iNumItems != null)) {
for (var i = 0; i < iNumItems; i++) {
aBillboardItems[i] = stripHTML(aBillboardItems[i]);
}
}
function stripHTML(sHTML) {
var sOutText = "";
var iTagStart;
var iTagEnd = 0;
// look for the start of the first tag
iTagStart = sHTML.indexOf("<");
// repeat until we find no more HTML opening brackets
while (iTagStart != -1) {
// add the text since the last tag (or the beginning) until
// the start of this tag
sOutText += sHTML.substring(iTagEnd, iTagStart);
// find the end of this tag
iTagEnd = sHTML.indexOf(">", iTagStart) + 1;
// find the start of the next tag
iTagStart = sHTML.indexOf("<", iTagEnd);
}
if (iTagEnd != 0) {
// finish up by adding the rest of the string
sOutText += sHTML.substring(iTagEnd, sHTML.length);
} else {
// no HTML was found, so just return the string we got
sOutText = sHTML;
}
// return the result string
return sOutText;
}
function showNextItem() {
var sIEHTML;
// show the text
if (iNumItems != null) {
if (browserIE4) {
// IE4+ specific code that removes the TEXTAREA control
// and displays read-only text in a table
sIEHTML = '
';
BillboardDiv.innerHTML = sIEHTML
} else {
// code for Netscape and other browsers
document.BillboardForm.BillboardTextArea.value = aBillboardItems[iCurItem];
}
// set the next item, roll-over to the start of the list, if needed
iCurItem = (iCurItem + 1) % iNumItems;
// run this function again after a delay
setTimeout("showNextItem()", iDelayMilliseconds);
}
}