function showArticle (thisArticle) {
//--- Displays details of an article, replacing existing info

	if (lastArticle == thisArticle) {
		return;
	}

	document.getElementById ('rotatingNewsRow' + lastArticle).style.backgroundColor = '#DDAE44';
	document.getElementById ('rotatingNewsRow' + thisArticle).style.backgroundColor = '#ffcc66';
	document.getElementById ('articleTitle').innerHTML = "<a href=\"" + RotatingNews[thisArticle][3] + "\">" + RotatingNews[thisArticle][0] + "</a>";
	document.getElementById ('articleBody').innerHTML = RotatingNews[thisArticle][2];
		document.getElementById ('articleTournament').innerHTML = RotatingNews[thisArticle][4];
		lastArticle = thisArticle;
	fadeImage ('imageFadeDiv', 'articlePic', RotatingNews[thisArticle][1], 250);

}

function moveArticle () {
//--- Moves to the next article in sequence

	switch (lastArticle) {
		case 0:	showArticle (1); break;
		case 1:	showArticle (2); break;
		case 2:	showArticle (3); break;
        case 3:	showArticle (4); break;
        case 4:	showArticle (5); break;
        case 5:	showArticle (6); break;
		case 6:	showArticle (0); break;
	}

}

function startRotation () {
//--- Starts the timer

	lastTimer = setInterval ('moveArticle ()', 5000);

}

function stopRotation () {
//--- Stops the timer

	if (lastTimer != null) {
		clearInterval (lastTimer); lastTimer = null;
	}

}

function fadeImage (divID, imageID, imageFile, milliseconds) { 
//--- Fades the images

	if (busyFading) {
		return;
	}
	busyFading = true;

	var speed = Math.round (milliseconds / 100);
	var timer = 0;

	//--- Set the current image as background
	document.getElementById (divID).style.backgroundImage = "url('" + document.getElementById (imageID).src.replace ("'", "\\'") + "')";

	//--- Set image to transparent
	setOpacity (0, imageID);

	//--- Add image
	document.getElementById (imageID).src = imageFile;

	//--- Fade in new image
	for(i = 0; i <= 100; i++) {
		setTimeout ("setOpacity (" + i + ", '" + imageID + "')", (timer * speed));
		timer++;
	}

	busyFading = false;

}

function setOpacity (opacity, objectID) {
//--- Sets the object's opacity across browsers

    var object = document.getElementById (objectID).style;
    object.opacity = (opacity / 100);
    object.MozOpacity = (opacity / 100);
    object.KhtmlOpacity = (opacity / 100);
    object.filter = "alpha(opacity=" + opacity + ")";

}

var lastArticle = 0;
var lastTimer = null;
var busyFading = false;
var RotatingNews = new Array ();
var RotatingImgs = new Array ();