Not sure where to post this so i'm posting it here.
I've written this component somewhere last year but i've updated the sourcecode a bit this week so that it supports (colored) links as well and optimized the code.
A video demo can be seen here + download
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ps dont mind the popup, i needed to put that there as per requirement from one of the sponsers of my blog.