function ticker_start(){
TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT = false;
TICKER_SPEED = 2;
TICKER_STYLE = "font-family:verdana;font-size:11px;color:#005588;";
TICKER_PAUSED = false;
TICKER_WIDTH = "100%";
TICKER_BLANK = "/inc/ticker/gfx/ecblank.gif";

var spacing = '<img src="'+TICKER_BLANK+'" width="'+TICKER_WIDTH+'" height="0" class="blank" alt="" />';
var arrow = '<img style="border: 0px solid ; padding: 0px 0pt 1px 5px;" src="'+TICKER_BLANK+'" alt=""/>';

aDiv = document.createElement("div");
aDiv.id = "TICKER";
aDiv.onmouseout = function(){TICKER_PAUSED=false;}
aDiv.onmouseover = function(){TICKER_PAUSED=true;}

document.getElementById("tickerContainer").appendChild(aDiv);

document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = document.getElementById("tickerData").innerHTML;

TICKER_CONTENT = document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML;
    
document.getElementById("TICKER").innerHTML = "<table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0' width='100%'><tr><td nowrap='nowrap'>"+spacing+"<span style='"+TICKER_STYLE+"' id='TICKER_BODY' width='100%'>&nbsp;</span>"+spacing+"</td></tr></table>";
document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth : 0;
document.getElementById("TICKER_BODY").innerHTML = TICKER_CONTENT;
document.getElementById("TICKER").style.display="block";
TICKER_tick();

}

function TICKER_tick() {
	if(!TICKER_PAUSED) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft += TICKER_SPEED * (TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT ? -1 : 1);
	if(TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft <= 0) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth;
	if(!TICKER_RIGHTTOLEFT && document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft >= document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollWidth - document.getElementById("TICKER").offsetWidth) document.getElementById("TICKER").scrollLeft = 0;
	window.setTimeout("TICKER_tick()", 30);
}

window.onload = ticker_start;