// Dynamic Drive http://www.dynamicdrive.com

 var msgs = new Array(
     "Nine International Research Teams Collaborate to Successfully Operate Multiple Biomedical...",
     "ABAQUS - Modeling respiratory motion for cancer radiation therapy...",
     "Prof. Suvranu De wins the James M. Tien '66 Early Career Award for Faculty",
     "USNCCM X - Sreekanth wins the USACM travel award",
     "MMVR17 - ACoRites win best poster award",
     "Discovery Channel News - Virtual tools offer 3D access to organs",
     "Wired News - Pass the virtual scalpel, nurse",
     "The Business Review - RPI professor to use grant for surgery simulation");

 var msg_url = new Array(
     "http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS163206+17-Sep-2009+PRN20090917",
     "http://www.simulia.com/academics/research_lung.html",
     "news1.jpg",
     "http://usnccm-10.eng.ohio-state.edu/travelawards.html",
     "http://mmvr17.wordpress.com/",
     "http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/23/virtualsurgery_hea.html?category=health&guid=20060823110000&dcitc=w19-502-ak-0000&clik=news_main",
     "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/medtech/0,71536-0.html?tw=wn_index_2",
     "http://albany.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2004/04/19/daily6.html");

var barwidth='536px' //Enter main bar width in px or %
var setdelay=1.0e5 //Enter delay between msgs, in mili-seconds

var count=0;
var intrID=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">\
<input type="button" name="news_bar_but" onclick="goURL();" class="newsbarstyle" style="width:'+barwidth+';">\
 <input type="button" value="&lt;" onclick="moveit(1)" class="scrollerstyle" name="next">\
 <input type="button" value="&gt;" onclick="moveit(0)" class="scrollerstyle" name="prev">\
 <input type="button" value="+" onclick="incCur();" class="scrollerstyle" name="nextlyr">\
 <input type="button" value="&minus;" onclick="decCur();" class="scrollerstyle" name="prevlyr"></form>');
}
else{
document.write('<form name="news_bar"><input type="button" value="Previous" onclick="moveit(0)">')
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('<input type="button" value="Next" onclick="moveit(1)"></form>')
}

function init_news_bar(){
  //count=Math.floor(Math.random()*msgs.length);
  count=0;
  document.news_bar.news_bar_but.value='NEWS - '+msgs[count];
  intrID=setInterval("moveit(1)",setdelay);
}

function moveit(how){
clearInterval(intrID);
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='ACoR News - '+msgs[count];
intrID=setInterval("moveit(1)",setdelay);
}

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