var delay = 2000; //set delay between message change (in miliseconds)
var maxsteps=30; // number of steps to take to change from start color to endcolor
var stepdelay=40; // time in miliseconds of a single step
//**Note: maxsteps*stepdelay will be total time in miliseconds of fading effect
var startcolor= new Array(255,255,255); // start color (red, green, blue)
var endcolor=new Array(255,204,153); // end color (red, green, blue)

var fcontent=new Array();
begintag='<div style="font: bold italic 10pt verdana; padding: 0px;">'; //set opening tag, such as font declarations
fcontent[0]="Great design ships<br><br>Steve Jobs, Apple Computer";
fcontent[1]="Eventually all technology becomes affordable.  The only thing distinguishing your product is its design.<br><br><a target=new href='http://www.sony.net/Fun/SH/index.html'>Akio Morita, CEO, Sony</a>";
fcontent[2]="For every dollar spent on design ten dollars are returned.<br><br><a target=new href='http://www.idsa.org/'>Industrial Designers Society of America study, 2000</a>";
fcontent[3]="Our process is very similar to Apple Computer, Braun, Motorola and numerous successful ID service companies worldwide.<br><br><a href='index_ourprocess.htm'>pier design process";
fcontent[4]="Good industrial design is related to corporate financial performance and stock market performance.<br><br><a target=new href='http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.0737-6782.2005.00100.x'>Journal of Product Innovation Management Volume 22 Issue 1 - January 2005</a>";
fcontent[5]="Leonardo da Vinci: the worlds first industrial designer.  It pays to be first.<br><br><a target=new href='http://www.museoscienza.org/english/leonardo/Default.htm'>Leonardo museum</a>";
fcontent[6]="The industrial design concept should be included at the start of the concept phase.<br><br><a href='index_whitepapers_pgpdp.htm'>pier design whitepaper</a>";
fcontent[7]="The overall user experience determines long term success both of the product and of the company.<br><br><a href='index_whitepapers_user.htm'>pier design whitepaper</a>";
fcontent[8]="Earned Value Analysis: the only project management tool to objectively status cost and schedule in real time.<br><br><a href='index_whitepapers.htm'>pier design whitepaper</a>";
closetag='</div>';

var fwidth='180px'; //set scroller width
var fheight='30px'; //set scroller height

var fadelinks=1;  //should links inside scroller content also fade like text? 0 for no, 1 for yes.

///No need to edit below this line/////////////////


var ie4=document.all&&!document.getElementById;
var DOM2=document.getElementById;
var faderdelay=0;
var index=0;


/*Rafael Raposo edited function*/
//function to change content
function changecontent(){
  if (index>=fcontent.length)
    index=0
  if (DOM2){
    document.getElementById("fscroller").style.color="rgb("+startcolor[0]+", "+startcolor[1]+", "+startcolor[2]+")"
    document.getElementById("fscroller").innerHTML=begintag+fcontent[index]+closetag
    if (fadelinks)
      linkcolorchange(1);
    colorfade(1, 15);
  }
  else if (ie4)
    document.all.fscroller.innerHTML=begintag+fcontent[index]+closetag;
  index++
}

// colorfade() partially by Marcio Galli for Netscape Communications.  ////////////
// Modified by Dynamicdrive.com

function linkcolorchange(step){
  var obj=document.getElementById("fscroller").getElementsByTagName("A");
  if (obj.length>0){
    for (i=0;i<obj.length;i++)
      obj[i].style.color=getstepcolor(step);
  }
}

/*Rafael Raposo edited function*/
var fadecounter;
function colorfade(step) {
  if(step<=maxsteps) {	
    document.getElementById("fscroller").style.color=getstepcolor(step);
    if (fadelinks)
      linkcolorchange(step);
    step++;
    fadecounter=setTimeout("colorfade("+step+")",stepdelay);
  }else{
    clearTimeout(fadecounter);
    document.getElementById("fscroller").style.color="rgb("+endcolor[0]+", "+endcolor[1]+", "+endcolor[2]+")";
    setTimeout("changecontent()", delay);
	
  }   
}

/*Rafael Raposo's new function*/
function getstepcolor(step) {
  var diff
  var newcolor=new Array(3);
  for(var i=0;i<3;i++) {
    diff = (startcolor[i]-endcolor[i]);
    if(diff > 0) {
      newcolor[i] = startcolor[i]-(Math.round((diff/maxsteps))*step);
    } else {
      newcolor[i] = startcolor[i]+(Math.round((Math.abs(diff)/maxsteps))*step);
    }
  }
  return ("rgb(" + newcolor[0] + ", " + newcolor[1] + ", " + newcolor[2] + ")");
}

if (ie4||DOM2)
  document.write('<div id="fscroller" style="border:0px solid black;width:'+fwidth+';height:'+fheight+'"></div>');

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", changecontent, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", changecontent)
else if (document.getElementById)
window.onload=changecontent