ildView Modules This topic describes the details of the WildView modules. The documentation that follows will make a lot more sense if you first take the time to read the material covered in the Basics, Panel Sets and Triggers, Panel Set Headers, and WildView Applet topics. WildView modules are Java classes that perform a specific function in a WildView display. It is the modules that makes the text scroll, the pictures display, the headlines blink, the URLs link, the ... well, you get the idea. There are two basic categories that modules can be placed in: modules that actually draw something in the WildView display area, and modules that control how the WildView display behaves and interacts with the user. The documentation has been grouped into two sections corresponding to these two categories. The sections are Graphics Modules and Control Modules.
	raphics Modules WildView Graphics modules are Java components that draw in the WildView display area. To view the detailed documentation for a module, click the name of the module or click the bullet to the left of the module name. WVPanelFrame The frame module (WVPanelFrame) allows you to draw a rectangular frame in a WildView display. A frame can be useful for defining the area occupied by another module, or for providing visual feedback of mouse actions in a particular area. WVPanelFx This module (WVPanelFx) allows you to create animated transition effects between graphic images defined by the WVPanelImage module and/or text images defined by the WVPanelText module. WVPanelHScroll This smooth horizontal scrolling text module (WVPanelHScroll) allows you to scroll text horizontally, from left to right. WVPanelImage GIF and JPEG images can be loaded and displayed using this graphic image module (WVPanelImage). WVPanelTeletype The "teletype" module (WVPanelTeletype) draws text character-by-character beginning at the top of the display area and working its way to the bottom. When the display area becomes full, the module pauses, then clears the display area and begins again at the top with the next line of text. WVPanelText This text module (WVPanelText) allows you display non-scrolling text. The module is especially useful for displaying headlines or banners. WVPanelTypewriter The "typewriter" text module (WVPanelTypewriter) scrolls text vertically (bottom to top) in a manner similar to a typewriter. Text is typed character-by-character along the bottom line. When the line is full, all of the text is smoothly scrolled up one line and the next line of text is typed at the bottom. WVPanelVScroll The WVPanelVScroll module allows you to create a text area in a WildView display that smoothly scrolls text vertically from bottom to top.
	ontrol Modules WildView Control modules are Java components that control how the WildView display behaves and interacts with the user. To view the detailed documentation for a module, click the name of the module or click the bullet to the left of the module name. WVPanelMail The Mail module (WVPanelMail) allows the implementation of an email "pop-up" window that enables a user to send email messages. With this module, email can be sent even if the user does not have an email client installed on the PC. The module supports sending email using SMTP or using a CGI program. WVPanelTimer The timer module (WVPanelTimer) allows you to send a pre-defined sequence of triggers to other panels beginning either when the WVPanelTimer panel is initialized, or beginning when a specified activation event occurs. The trigger sequence can be played continuously, or a specified number of times. WVPanelTrigger The trigger module (WVPanelTrigger) allows you create a panel that can send a single message or multiple messages to another panel (or to the WildView applet) when a mouse event (e.g, a mouse button click) occurs in the WVPanelTrigger panel's area. WVPanelURL The URL module (WVPanelURL) allows you to define a rectangular area in the WildView display area that, when clicked, will load one or more URLs.
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