ImageSampler

This applet provides an easy way to present a series of
images for a visitor's perusal.  It is especially made
for displaying tiling images (such as web page backgrounds).
The ImageSampler applet permits its user to select and
configure text to view as an overlay over the tiled image;
to preview how the image might look as a web page 
background.

To use ImageSampler, you need to follow these steps:

   1. Pick out a set of images that you want to preview.
      Check their sizes; you'll want to configure the
      ImageSampler to be at least as big as the largest
      image.  (Scrolling, unfortunately, is not supported.)
   2. Put the applet tag into your HTML file, as
      follows:
	<applet code="ImageSampler" width=512 height=512>

   3. Write the parameter tags for the images you want to
      present.  You'll have to use only four parameter
      tags:

      - url		base URL where the images can be found
			(usually something like this:
			   http://www.myisp.com/~myname/imagedir/)

      - background	Background color for the applet (in hex)
			This is usually the same as the background
			color of your web page.

      - image1	        First image file name.
      - desc1		Description of first image.
      - image2		Second image file name.
      - desc2		Description of second image.
      - image3,4,5...	More images
      - desc3,4,5...	More descriptions


As long as your image numbers and description numbers are 
consecutive, the ImageSampler applet will correctly read
them all.

Note that for this to work correctly, your images must be
on the same web server as the applet.  If you try to get
images from some other server, the Java security sandbox
will prevent the applet from retrieving them.

For more information, check out the example packed with 
this distribution.

