TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:Courier New; font-size:12px; color:#b7b7b7";
TICKER = [];

function ticker_start(sNum,rightToLeft,speed,paused) {
    if(!sNum) sNum = 1;
    if(!rightToLeft) rightToLeft = false;
    if(!speed) speed = 1;
    if(!paused) paused = false;
    TICKER[sNum] = [];
    TICKER[sNum]['CONTENT'] = document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).innerHTML;
    TICKER[sNum]['RIGHTTOLEFT'] = rightToLeft;
    TICKER[sNum]['SPEED'] = speed;
    TICKER[sNum]['PAUSED'] = paused;

    var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER[sNum]['WIDTH'] = document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).style.width;
	var img = "";

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).innerHTML = "<TABLE  cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><TR><TD nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' ID='TICKER_BODY"+sNum+"' width='100%'>&nbsp;</SPAN>"+img+"</TD></TR></TABLE>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	// IE
//	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE")!=-1) {
//		document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).innerHTML = "<DIV nowrap='nowrap' style='width:100%;'>"+img+"<SPAN style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' ID='TICKER_BODY"+sNum+"' width='100%'></SPAN>"+img+"</DIV>";
//		tickerSupported = true;
//	}
	if(!tickerSupported)
        document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).outerHTML = "";
    else {
		document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).scrollLeft = TICKER[sNum]['RIGHTTOLEFT'] ? document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).offsetWidth : 0;
		document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY"+sNum).innerHTML = TICKER[sNum]['CONTENT'];
		document.getElementById("TICKER"+sNum).style.display="block";
		TICKER_tick(sNum);
	}
}

function TICKER_tick(tNum) {
	if(!TICKER[tNum]['PAUSED']) document.getElementById("TICKER"+tNum).scrollLeft += TICKER[tNum]['SPEED'] * (TICKER[tNum]['RIGHTTOLEFT'] ? -1 : 1);
	if(TICKER[tNum]['RIGHTTOLEFT'] && document.getElementById("TICKER"+tNum).scrollLeft <= 0) TICKER[tNum]['RIGHTTOLEFT'] = false;
	if(!TICKER[tNum]['RIGHTTOLEFT'] && document.getElementById("TICKER"+tNum).scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("TICKER"+tNum).scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER"+tNum).offsetWidth) TICKER[tNum]['RIGHTTOLEFT'] = true;
	window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick("+tNum+")", 30);
}