Scrolling News Ticker

The ticker floats a number of text items that have been defined in the XML file. It's useful to add the headlines from your favourite sites to your own website.

Features:

- resizeable
- colors settings
- float direction
- direction arrows
- items url redirection

 

rbrooks

on 11/5/10

 

Great ticker. Any way I can make it so it is not a link, but only scrolls the text?

 

Andrei Potorac

on 11/5/10

Sure. Simply add no url in the XML.

 

Kory Howard

on 8/12/11

I'm actually wondering the same thing. If I remove the link_url from the ticker.xml file it displays as a link still on the website. If the user clicks the item, it opens a new blank tab.

An example of one item that I'm trying to remove the link from is below. I'm hopeing there's a way to make it plain text that's scrolling instead of a link (to nowhere).

                
<item><![CDATA[Reminder: System downtime this weekend from 10 PM Saturday until 5 AM Sunday.]]></item>

                

When that item loads in the ticker, it appears as a link like all the others and clicking on it results in a new blank tab.

Thank you for any assistance you can provide.

 

Corneliu Chitanu

on 9/12/11

Hello,

We'll look into the problem and come soon with an answer or an update for the component. Thank you for your comment and your patience.

 

Kory Howard

on 12/12/11

Thanks for your quick response! I'll look forward to an update to the component :)

 

Corneliu Chitanu

on 14/12/11

Hi,

We updated the component. It will not open the empty tab now. If the link is not defined, it won't do anything.

Please download the zip file one more time and just update the old SWF file you used with the new updated version.

 

sergio mora

on 20/5/10

 

I'm having troubles using this, I saw the video tutorial but there's no main.as in this component, there's only a ticker.as is this the one I need to look at? do you have the 4 lines I need to copy? thank you

 

Andrei Potorac

on 20/5/10

The name of the file is now Sample.as - we'll redo the video tutorials very soon. ;)

 

sergio mora

on 20/5/10

 

Thank you for the reply, I think I'm almost there, I have the code

import com.vuzum.Ticker;

var pathToFiles : String = "ticker/";
var xmlPath : String = "xml/ticker.xml";

mcTicker.init(350, 25, pathToFiles, xmlPath);

the following error is showing:

TypeError: Error #1006: init is not a function.

Help me!!

 

Andrei Potorac

on 21/5/10

Please make sure you copied all the files in your library, from our file's library, and that you also copied the elements from the timeline in your timeline.

 

sergio mora

on 21/5/10

 

That's what i did! please let me know if I need to pay you to get support, this is making me crazy. Also I tried to use it with html but it has the black background I just need the ticker how can I remove everthing else.

 

Andrei Potorac

on 24/5/10

Please send us your files, and we'll look into them and do it for you. Thanks.

 

sergio mora

on 24/5/10

 

Thank you!, my files are a little larger so I can't send it through email, is there a way to get a flie with only the ticker that I can just copy and paste it into mine? my email is [email protected] thank you! Let me know if I have to pay, thank you!

 

Andrei Potorac

on 25/5/10

Send us the FLA at least. ;)

 

Lorenzds

on 6/6/10

 

Hello:)

This News Ticker is totally great! The only one sad thing for me is that it's made in AS3:'(

Is there any way somehow to.. maybe..convert it into AS2?..
Thank you!

 

Andrei Potorac

on 7/6/10

Sorry, but no. We don't do any AS2, as it's a deprecated and slow language. Why not switch to AS3? :-)

 

BrieDMan

on 6/6/10

 

Hi, this is great! Can I change the text to an image?

 

Andrei Potorac

on 7/6/10

Nope.

 

Andrei Potorac

on 7/6/10

You might want to check our continuous image slider though. It does exactly this, with images.

 

srvikram13

on 8/6/10

 

Hi there,

The ticker is really nice. But I was hoping to find an swc file for the same with properties editable from the Components Inspector.

Since my project is already huge with my own source code and a couple of external open source libraries, can you please consider deploying a customizable swc of the same?

 

Andrei Potorac

on 8/6/10

The short answer is no. We only do AS3 SWF files.

 

ap2015

on 9/6/10

 

I am using the file with the large background. How can I change the ticker from the center of the stage to say the top or bottom?

Thanks, and great product!

 

Andrei Potorac

on 9/6/10

It's not to be used like that, but if that's how you want it, check Sample.as. The code to reposition it is there.

 

ap2015

on 9/6/10

 

That's what i thought. I looked but all I could find was the StageScaleMode and StageAlign, but i played around and couldn't change it. I'm still new to AS3, any help would be appreciated.

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Scrolling News Ticker - change log

2010.02.26 - version 2.0

* new XML functionality and bug fixes

define separator char
hide separator
set separator color
hide side buttons
randomize elements
set transition speed
set roll over color arrows
set over color for links
define target
set arrows width

2010.02.25 - version 1.0

* First release!

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