TICKER_STYLE="font-family:Arial; font-size:12px; color:#444444";
TICKER_STYLE="";
TICKER_PAUSED=false;


function ticker_start() {
	var tickerSupported = false;
	TICKER_CONTENT=document.getElementById("tickercontents").innerHTML;
	document.getElementById("ticker").style.width='1px';
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("tickerplacer").offsetWidth;
//	alert(w);
//	w = document.getElementById("tickerplacer").offsetWidth;
//	alert(w);
	document.getElementById("ticker").style.width=TICKER_WIDTH+'px';
//	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("ticker").style.width;
	var img = '<img src="/i/empty.gif" width="'+TICKER_WIDTH+'" height="0" />';

	// Firefox
	if (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")!=-1 || navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Safari")!=-1) {
		document.getElementById("ticker").innerHTML = "<table  cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><tr><td nowrap='nowrap'>"+img+"<span style='"+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 style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' id='ticker_body' width='100%'></span>"+img+"</div>";
		tickerSupported = true;
	}
	if(!tickerSupported) document.getElementById("ticker").outerHTML = ""; else {
		document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = 0;
		document.getElementById("ticker_body").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
		document.getElementById("ticker").style.display="block";
		ticker_tick();
	}
}

function ticker_recalc() {
	document.getElementById("ticker").style.width='1px';
	TICKER_WIDTH = document.getElementById("tickerplacer").offsetWidth;
	document.getElementById("ticker").style.width=TICKER_WIDTH+'px';
}

function ticker_tick() {
	if(!TICKER_PAUSED) document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft += TICKER_SPEED;
	if(document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("ticker").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("ticker").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("ticker").scrollLeft = 0;
	window.setTimeout("ticker_tick()", 20);
}