// Ticker startup
function startTicker()
{
	// Define run time values
	theCurrentStory     = -1;
	theCurrentLength    = 0;
	// Locate base objects
	if (document.getElementById) {	
		    theAnchorObject     = document.getElementById("tickerAnchor");
			runTheTicker();   	
		 }
	else {
            document.write("<style>.ticki{display:none;}.ticko{border:0px; padding:0px;}</style>");
            return true;
	}
}
// Ticker main run loop
function runTheTicker()
{
	var myTimeout;  
	// Go for the next story data block
	if(theCurrentLength == 0)
	{
		theCurrentStory++;
		theCurrentStory      = theCurrentStory % theItemCount;
		theStorySummary      = theSummaries[theCurrentStory].replace(/&quot;/g,'"');		
	}
	// Stuff the current ticker text into the anchor
	theAnchorObject.innerHTML = theStorySummary.substring(0,theCurrentLength) + whatWidget();
	// Modify the length for the substring and define the timer
	if(theCurrentLength != theStorySummary.length)
	{
		theCurrentLength++;
		myTimeout = theCharacterTimeout;
	}
	else
	{
		theCurrentLength = 0;
		myTimeout = theStoryTimeout;
	}
	// Call up the next cycle of the ticker
	setTimeout("runTheTicker()", myTimeout);
}
// Widget generator
function whatWidget()
{
	if(theCurrentLength == theStorySummary.length)
	{
		return theWidgetNone;
	}

	if((theCurrentLength % 2) == 1)
	{
		return theWidgetOne;
	}
	else
	{
		return theWidgetTwo;
	}
}


	var theCharacterTimeout = 50;
	var theStoryTimeout     = 5000;
	var theWidgetOne        = "_";
	var theWidgetTwo        = "-";
	var theWidgetNone       = "";

	var theSummaries = new Array();


	var theItemCount = 25;

	theSummaries[0] = "Belt Up Theatre - MORBID CURIOSITY";
	theSummaries[1] = "Breakz Present DJ CLIPZ";
	theSummaries[2] = "Viking Raid 3 - Tickets ON SALE NOW!!";
	theSummaries[3] = "Top-up your print credits online";
	theSummaries[4] = "RAG Hitch to Pairs Sign Up!";
	theSummaries[5] = "Lecture on health economics - 19 May";
	theSummaries[6] = "BLOOD DONOR SESSIONS";
	theSummaries[7] = "PRIORITY TICKETS for Summer Ball extended";
	theSummaries[8] = "Lecture on Ibn Haitham (Alhazen) - 15 May";
	theSummaries[9] = "Lecture on modern physics - 12 May";
	theSummaries[10] = "Library Survey";
	theSummaries[11] = "Come and sing with the York Glee Singers";
	theSummaries[12] = "A home for your unwanted textbooks??";
	theSummaries[13] = "Lecture on Hes East archaeology - 22 May";
	theSummaries[14] = "Lecture Thursday Week 3";
	theSummaries[15] = "Tonight at York Student Cinema...";
	theSummaries[16] = "RAG UGM, Monday week 4";
	theSummaries[17] = "Live and Large";
	theSummaries[18] = "Graduation Dinner & Ball 2008";
	theSummaries[19] = "Athletic Union Elections";
	theSummaries[20] = "Making recordings of your band";
	theSummaries[21] = "Free Self Defence Classes for Women";
	theSummaries[22] = "RAG Toybox - The Official Roses Party";
	theSummaries[23] = "Tonight at York Student Cinema...";
	theSummaries[24] = "UGM Motion Deadline";