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

 

djlush01

on 23/6/11

 

Hi Is it possible to increase the width on the scroll? i changed the setting in the xml file but it only increases the black back round box but does not increase the scroll is increasing the scoll possible can u explain how? i went to xml and changed the width

 

djlush01

on 23/6/11

 

http://www.djlushworldwide.com/downloa... is the link

 

Corneliu Chitanu

on 24/6/11

Hi,

Please download the files one more time. We updated the component to include a new SWF that has no background.

That background was used just for presentation purposes.

Also I recommend using the code from our index.html file, like our tutorial here explains:

http://www.flabell.com/blog/1829/how-t...

It will make the component work on every browser. Plus you need to specify the paths to its resources and all the flashvars. The values in the XML file are not taken into consideration. To change the size of the component you'll just need to set the componentWidth and componentHeight flashvars.

This is what we do in our index.html file. There are other methods using the code that you used to embed the component, but it will be simpler to just copy/paste our code.

Please let us know, if it gives you more trouble. We'll help you as soon as possible.

 

ahussam86

on 5/7/11

 

I want to generate the xml file dynamically and pass it to the flashvars, can anyone help

 

ahussam86

on 5/7/11

 

What I'm asking for.. how can I pass the xml content to your flash component ?

 

Corneliu Chitanu

on 6/7/11

Hello,

You can do this through flashvars, like we did in our index.html file from the deploy folder.

                
flashvars.pathToFiles = "ticker/";			
// component settings xml path
flashvars.xmlPath = "xml/ticker.xml";

                

Note that the path to the XML file is built using the pathToFiles flashvar. It will be pathtoFiles+xmlPath. That's relative to the webpage where the component is embedded in.

 

rivmanbx

on 3/11/11

 

Hello. Thanks for this wonderful piece of work. All seems to work fine and the customisations are more than enough. Using a cron job and some php I was able to convert RSS to XML and feed the file, the ticker works like a chams. Good work ! Kudos !

 

Corneliu Chitanu

on 7/11/11

You're welcome. We're glad to see you happy with the component. Enjoy it!

 

mcmvision

on 28/12/11

 

Can i run an rss feed in this ticker? The ticker is really great and it will be cool if it could read rss feeds.

 

Corneliu Chitanu

on 3/1/12

Hello,

Sorry, but the component doesn't read RSS feeds. If you need our help we can implement the feature by doing some custom work for you. If you're interested, please send an email at info@vuzum.com. We'll reply ASAP and discuss the project with you.

 

mcbeardish

on 9/2/12

 

hey, The links in the ticker xml are not opening when being clicked upon. Not even in the original download file. Is there any way to fix that?

 

Corneliu Chitanu

on 13/2/12

Hi,

This might happen when you try to open a link from a flash component, on a local machine. On the server it works, but not on the local machine. This is a security measure Adobe takes, by default. It doesn't permit the flash player to access external resources, when you run the component on your computer. If you want this to change, please go to this link:

http://www.macromedia.com/support/docu...

and add a new location, which would become trusted. That would be the folder which contains the SWF files you're working with.

If the links don't open with your component available online, please share a link to it. We'll inspect it and find a solution for you.

 

k4knowledge

1 week, 6 days ago

 

How do I separate the settings from the content xml file like some of your other flash components?

 

Corneliu Chitanu

1 week, 3 days ago

You'll need to change some logic in our Flash/ActionScript3 project. If you need our help, please contact us for custom work at info@vuzum.com. Please let us know what do you need exactly and we'll help you out as soon as we can. Thanks!

 

k4knowledge

1 week, 3 days ago

Thanks. I finally got it after spending a few hours looking through the code. I like when the content xml is separated from the settings xml because that makes generating dynamic content xml from content management systems like Drupal easier. I also spent a few hours trying to figure out why my text wasn't showing up. Turns out, I had to embed the fonts.

 

Corneliu Chitanu

1 week, 3 days ago

Hi,

So glad to see you happy with the component and that you succeeded to customize it the way you want it. Enjoy!

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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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