var timerMenu;
var currentMenu = 0;
var isFading = false;
function showMenu(num) {
	if (isFading || num == currentMenu)
		return false;
	if (currentMenu != 0) {
		sth_displayNone('p_submenu_'+currentMenu);
	}
	if (num != 0) {
		sth_displayBlock('p_submenu_'+num);
	  	if (!(sth_browser.ie && sth_browser.mac))
			fadeInMenu(num,0);
	}
	currentMenu = num;
	return false;
}
function hideMenus() {
	for (var i=1; i <= 7;i++)
		sth_displayNone('p_submenu_'+i);
}
function fadeInMenu(num,opacity) {
	if (opacity != 100) {
	   isFading = true;
	   changeOpacity('p_submenu_'+num,opacity);
   	setTimeout("fadeInMenu("+num+","+(opacity+10)+")",25);
   }
   else
	   isFading = false;
}
function changeOpacity(strElement,opacity) {
   var obj = MM_findObj(strElement);
   if (obj && obj.style) {
      obj.style.filter='alpha(opacity='+(opacity)+')';
      obj.style.MozOpacity=(opacity/100);
   }
}

function stopMenuOffTimer()
{
 if (timerMenu)
 	clearTimeout(timerMenu);
}
function startMenuOffTimer()
{
 timerMenu = setTimeout('closeIfUnused()', 500);
}
function closeIfUnused()
{
	if (currentMenu != 0) {
		sth_displayNone('p_submenu_'+currentMenu);
		currentMenu = 0;
	}
}

var newsToScroll;
var stopNewsScrolling = false;
function scrollNews() {
	var objNews = document.getElementById('p_news_content');
	newsToScroll = objNews.innerHTML.split('::');
	showNextNews(0);
}
function showNextNews(num) {
	if (num == newsToScroll.length) num = 0;
	if (!stopNewsScrolling) {
		var objNews = document.getElementById('p_news_content');
		objNews.innerHTML = newsToScroll[num];
		num++;
	}
	setTimeout('showNextNews('+num+')',1500);
}