Status Bar Scrolling

[Carlo]

Hi
Is there a way to link a value from another website in a scrolling
text script such as below, where I want to get the latest rate of
exchange to scroll:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
<!--
var scrollCounter = 0;
var i = 0;
var scrollText= "The rate of Exchange is XXXXXXXXX";
var scrollDelay= 70;
while (i ++ < 140)
scrollText = " " + scrollText;
function Scroller()
{
window.status = scrollText.substring(scrollCounter++,
scrollText.length);
if (scrollCounter == scrollText.length)
scrollCounter = 0;
setTimeout("Scroller()", scrollDelay);
}
Scroller();
Thanks
Carlob1

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Carlo wrote:

Is there a way to link a value from another website in a scrolling
text script such as below, where I want to get the latest rate of
exchange to scroll:
First of all, what do you mean by "link a value from another website"?
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
That should read

<script type="text/javascript">
[...]

Don't mess with the status bar, it is designed to display helpful
information, such as where a link points to and how much of a document
has been already downloaded and rendered, or what errors occurred. If
I want information about rates of exchange, I visit the appropriate
website, such as ft.com.

<http://jibbering.com/faq/#FAQ4_35>
PointedEars