// CREDITS:
// Christmas Cursor Tracker
// 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.
// info@24fun.ch
// 11/15/2000
// IMPORTANT: 
// If you add this script to a script-library or script-archive 
// you have to add a link to http://www.24fun.com/fast/index.html on the webpage 
// where this script will be running.
// CONFIGURATION:
// Visit http://www.24fun.com/fast/index.html and download the script as ZIP-file which contains 
// all picures as well as copy-and-paste instructions for easy installation.
var step=8 
var stepbasic=8
var numberofimages=8
var spacebetweenimgs=32
var x,y
var flag=0
var xpos=new Array()
for(i=0;i<=8;i++) {
 xpos[i]=-100
}
var ypos=new Array()
for(i=0;i<=numberofimages;i++) {
 ypos[i]=-100
}
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 initiatetracker() {
 if (document.all) {
  for (i=0; i<numberofimages; i++) {
      var thisspan=eval("span"+(i)+".style")
   thisspan.posLeft=xpos[i]
   thisspan.posTop=ypos[i]
      thisspan.visibility="visible"
     }
  makesnake()
 }
 if (document.layers) {
  for (i=0; i<numberofimages; i++) {
      var thisspan=eval("document.span"+i)
   thisspan.left=xpos[i]
   thisspan.top=ypos[i]
   thisspan.visibility="visible"
  }
     makesnake()
 }
}
function makesnake() {
 if (flag==1 && document.all) {
     for (i=numberofimages; i>=1; i--) {
      xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+spacebetweenimgs
   ypos[i]=ypos[i-1]
     }
  xpos[0]=x+stepbasic
  ypos[0]=y
 
  for (i=0; i<numberofimages; i++) {
      var thisspan = eval("span"+(i)+".style")
      thisspan.posLeft=xpos[i]
   thisspan.posTop=ypos[i]
     }
 }
 
 else if (flag==1 && document.layers) {
     for (i=numberofimages; i>=1; i--) {
      xpos[i]=xpos[i-1]+spacebetweenimgs
   ypos[i]=ypos[i-1]
     }
  xpos[0]=x+stepbasic
  ypos[0]=y
 
  for (i=0; i<numberofimages; i++) {
      var thisspan = eval("document.span"+i)
      thisspan.left=xpos[i]
   thisspan.top=ypos[i]
     }
 }
  var timer=setTimeout("makesnake()",30)
}
if (document.layers){
 document.captureEvents(Event.MOUSEMOVE);
}
document.onmousemove=handlerMM;
window.onload=initiatetracker