//News Bar script- By Premshree Pillai (premshree@hotmail.com)
//http://www.qiksearch.com/javascripts.htm
//Enhancements by Dynamic Drive
//Visit http://www.dynamicdrive.com for this script

// This needs to pull in array of Hot Topics dynamically from database
var msgs = new Array(
"70 Years of Party Identification",
"What the Public Knows about Science",
"Support for Abortion Slips",
"Racism Not Seen as Major Factor in Obama Opposition",
"Poor Ratings for Congressional Leaders" ); // No comma after last ticker msg

// This needs to pull in array of Hot Topic URLs dynamically from database
var msg_url = new Array(
"/party-identification-trend/",
"/report/528/",
"/report/549/support-for-abortion-slips",
"/report/?pageid=1592#race",
"/report/?pageid=1592#congressional/ratings" ); // No comma after last ticker url

var barwidth='500px' //Enter main bar width in px or %
var setdelay=5000 //Enter delay between msgs, in mili-seconds
var mouseover_color='#195353' //Specify highlight color
var mouseout_color='#286e6e' //Specify default color
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

var count=0;
var ns6=document.getElementById&&!document.all
var ie4=document.all&&navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")==-1

if(ie4||ns6) {
	document.write('<form name="news_bar" style="display:inline; margin:0;"><input type="button" value="" onclick="moveit(0)" class="scrollerstyleback" style="background-color:#286e6e; width:12px; height:17px; border-right-width:0px; vertical-align:middle;" name="prev" title="Previous"><input type="button" value="" onclick="moveit(1)" class="scrollerstyleforward" style="background-color:#286e6e; width:12px; height:17px; border-left-width:0px; vertical-align:middle;" name="next" title="Next"><input type="button" name="news_bar_but" onclick="goURL();" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:11px;color:#ffffff;background:#286e6e; width:'+barwidth+'; height:17px; border-width:0; cursor:hand; text-align:left; vertical-align:middle;" onmouseover="this.style.background=mouseover_color" onmouseout="this.style.background=mouseout_color"></form>');
}
else {
	document.write('<form name="news_bar" style="display:inline; margin:0;"><input type="button" value="Previous" onclick="moveit(0)"><input type="button" value="Next" onclick="moveit(1)">')
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera")!=-1)
		document.write('<input type="button" name="news_bar_but" onclick="goURL();" style="width:'+barwidth+'" border="0">')
	else
		document.write('<input type="button" name="news_bar_but" onclick="goURL();" width="'+barwidth+'" border="0">')
	document.write('</form>')
}

function init_news_bar() {
	document.news_bar.news_bar_but.value=msgs[count];
}

//moveit function by Dynamicdrive.com
function moveit(how) {
	if(how==1) { //cycle foward
		if(count<msgs.length-1)
			count++
		else
			count=0
	}
	else { //cycle backward
		if(count==0)
			count=msgs.length-1
		else
			count--
	}
	document.news_bar.news_bar_but.value=msgs[count];
}

setInterval("moveit(1)",setdelay)

function goURL() {
	location.href=msg_url[count];
}

init_news_bar();