// CREDITS:

// Cursor Tracker 4

// by Urs Dudli and Peter Gehrig 

// Copyright (c) 2000 Peter Gehrig and Urs Dudli. All rights reserved.

// Permission given to use the script provided that this notice remains as is.

// Additional scripts can be found at http://www.24fun.com/fast/index.html

// info@24fun.com

// 11/24/2000



// IMPORTANT: 

// If you add this script to a script-library or script-archive 

// you have to add a highly visible link to 

// http://www.24fun.com/fast/index.html on the webpage 

// where this script will be featured



// CONFIGURATION:

// Go to http://www.24fun.com/fast/index.html, 

// open category 'text' and download the script as ZIP-file 

// with step-by-step instructions and copy-and-paste installation.



message=message+" "

message=message.split("")



var x,y

var flag=0



var xpos=new Array()

for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) {

	xpos[i]=-50

}



var ypos=new Array()

for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) {

	ypos[i]=-50

}



function handlerMM(e){

	x = (document.layers) ? e.pageX : document.body.scrollLeft+event.clientX

	y = (document.layers) ? e.pageY : document.body.scrollTop+event.clientY

	flag=1

}



function makesnake() {

	if (flag==1 && document.all) {

    	for (i=message.length-1; i>=1; i--) {

   			xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+step

			ypos[i]=ypos[i-1]

    	}

		xpos[0]=x+step

		ypos[0]=y

	

		for (i=0; i<message.length-1; i++) {

    		var thisspan = eval("document.all.span"+(i)+".style")

    		thisspan.posLeft=xpos[i]

			thisspan.posTop=ypos[i]

    	}

	}

	

	if (flag==1 && document.layers) {

    	for (i=message.length-1; i>=1; i--) {

   			xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+step

			ypos[i]=ypos[i-1]

    	}

		xpos[0]=x+step

		ypos[0]=y

	

		for (i=0; i<message.length-1; i++) {

    		var thisspan = eval("document.span"+i)

    		thisspan.left=xpos[i]

			thisspan.top=ypos[i]

    	}

	}

		var timer=setTimeout("makesnake()",10)

}



if (document.all || document.layers) {

	for (i=0;i<=message.length-1;i++) {

    	document.write("<span id='span"+i+"' class='spanstyle'>")

		document.write(message[i])

    	document.write("</span>")

	}

}



if (document.layers){

	document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);

}



if (document.all || document.layers) {

	document.onmousemove = handlerMM;

	window.onload=makesnake

}