DO NOT!!! DELETE THESE FILES - they are used by all of the AniS Java animations running on this machine (i.e. http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/ and http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/) Whenever Tom Whittaker releases a new version of AniS, these files should be replaced with the new ones. Refer to http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/employee_info/animations.html for more information. 2/27/03: Tom Whittaker has agreed to update these files when he makes changes to AniS. 2/27/03: AniS updated to version 2.5 by tomw 2/28/03: AniS updated to 2.6 to correct problem with left-right arrow keys. tomw 3/21/03 AniS updated to 2.7 to allow using PNG files in older browsers. See http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/visit/anis/pnginfo.html for details. 6/3/03 AniS updated to 2.11 to fix problem with toggle buttons introduced in Sun's JVM 1.4.1. 6/5/03 AniS updated to 2.13 to fix problem with autorefresh with (you guessed it) JVM 1.4.1. 9/15/03 AniS update to 2.20 to add capabilities to always zoom, to roam while zoomed, to use less memory when zooming, to allow for files to be read from an archive, and to allow scaling to a specified size. 2/10/04 AniS update to 2.24 to add new parameter "image_preserve" that allows you to define one or more rectangular regions that will be preserved during zooming. 4/2/04 AniS update to 2.25 to add new parameter "minimum_dwell" that allows for faster animations. Must be used with caution! 8/16/04 AniS updatge to version 2.31. Added new parameter, "use_caching". See doc. Also, cleaned up overlay file reading to improve memory use... 11/26/04 AniS update to version 2.34. Added new control: "setframe" which adds a slider/scrollbar to allow the frame to be set. Added new parameter: "dwell_rates" to allow dwells on frames to be set individually. 2/23/05 AniS update to version 2.40. Added internationalizations. Allow file_of_filenames to contains frame-by-frame dwell rates. Added options to "auto_toggle" and "toggle" controls. 6/20/05 AniS updates to version 2.52. Added new overlay parameters. Other changes in doc. 8/22/05 AniS update to version 2.54. Added progress bar as a default. 8/24/05 AniS update to version 2.56. Corrected % readout when using progress bar. Made the "Show" button enabling consistent with fading (basically, not allowed). 12/14/05 AniS update to version 2.61. Added new parameters for overlays. New public method for JavaScripters. 5/9/06 AniS updated to version 2.75. Added new parameters for setting overlay checkbox colors (will not work on Macs, of course), making the reloading of images "quiet", and for user-selected number of images. 7/27/06 AniS updated to version 2.79. This fixes a problem when the portal images are unrelated to the background image (like a simple 4 panel), and the portal image sizes were being used as the basis for the offscreen image size, instead of the background image. Duh. 2/5/07 AniS updated to version 2.83. This heads off a problem with Java 1.6 regarding caching of images. 4/16/07 AniS updated to version 2.84. Added parameter "exclude_caching" to allow the exclusion of files from cache, when caching is enabled. 6/6/07 AniS updated to version 2.88. Added parameter "use_anti_caching" to allow the administrator to disable the new "anti-cachine" measures (by setting the value="false"). The anti-caching measures append "?xxxxx" to the end of each filename requested via http that are not supposed to be cached. Note if the filename/URL contains a "?", this is not done. 6/12/07 June 12, 2007 update to version 2.90 modifies the code to cirumvent an issue for users of the "Safari" browser on Macs who use "tabs". The code had been suspending the "auto-update" whenever the user tabbed away from the animation; the updated code will continue to update even though the animation is not visible.

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