Flash :: CNN Style Ticker

Ticker Style Text Scroller
Hi could somebody help me out. I'm trying to make a small box with scrolling text in it, I want the text to scroll like in a news ticker tape script. However I want the scroll to be vertical instead of horizontal.
I'm unsure whether I would use action script to achieve this or is there another way as my action script isn't very good.
If anybody could advise me I'd be most grateful.
Many thanks
PS am I making any sence?

Airport-style Character Flip Board Ticker
Hi there,

I am trying to find a ticker that will display quotes in the old airport departure style character flipboard style.

I have a few quotes so ideally it would shuffle through a few quotes and be about 40 chars by 3 lines.

Is anyone anywhere on a free FLV I could lay my hands on to do this with? I've searched everywhere to no avail.. not quite sure what to call it but everyone understands.

Any help would be gratefully received!!!

News Style "ticker" With Sports, Weather Updates That Scroll Across Bottom Of Screen
Hi

I am building a site and I would like to include a feature to it that shows current weather conditions and the latest sports scores. If anyone knows of a company that can integrate these things into a Flash MX site then please advise.

Thank you

Text Ticker "3d Style Roller"
I am curious how I would go about creating a headline ticker that would have a 3d look? I am trying to make it look like a drum roller.

The part I am having trouble with is the dynamic text and how to give it a 3d look.

-matt

TICKER
Has anyone understood how to dynamically set the data width using the FTICKER component? I am reading in values from a file, so there is no way to set the datawidth to be the same for all, as it is measured in pixels, and you will never have the same in any line of text.

Please help.

Ticker
How do i build a ticker which runs on endless loop?

Thanks in advance,
Maya.

Ticker
i'm attempting to build a virtual jukebox. and i'd like the name of the song to go by one section of the jukebox like in other programs for music, like winamp and such. does anyone have any good ideas on how to do this?

Help With A Ticker...
I'm working on a fully actionscripted ticker text box, and it's *almost* working. I can get the message to scroll all the way across, but when it starts scrolling "off screen", the front gets truncated a little faster than it should be.

I've messed with it and can't get it really figured out - any help would be appreciated. See attached file.

Ticker
Hi all,

I was wondering if someone could knock me up a quick ticker in flash. I want it as a replacement for the java ticker located in the top frame of Y3000.com, as you can see it is very simple, just grey with an arial font. I have a text file with 20 lines in it which is constantly updated. I want the flash animation to display each line one by one like the applet, then once it has reached the 20th line to refresh the file so that the newest messages are shown.

Adam.

Ticker
Hey guys, i need help getting this banner working for a site im making for a school here in florida...

i want to have a ticker scroll at the bottom of this banner... the problem is, i cant just make something tween in flash... i need it to be user friendly....

since the site will not be under my care, i need to have the ticker in a way so that flash can load the variables from a .txt file... the catch is, not only do i need that, i need the lines to each have a separate link (also set on the txt file) i have been able to set how many lines the file is going to have, and they load well... i just need to have it loop, and have the links working

if anyone can help me with this, this file is exactly like the one i am using now, except for the fact that the images are not there... http://hydra.gotdns.org/help.rar please help me as soon as possible, i need this for monday.

Thanks in advanced
Psycho

Ticker Help
I need to create a ticker like on the URL:

http://www.hofstra.edu/home/index.html

(Left hand side, beneath the "Hofstra blackboard" link, called: Featured Events.

I need it to load data from a txt or xml file, but also create a master list (like if you click on the circle icon on the above)

I have tried to use the Ticker component, and a) can't seem to get any data loaded in from an outside source, gather, I'm an extreme beginner with ActionScript, and b) can't seem to format the text in the ticker when I enter in the data via the component screen.

Can anyone maybe direct me on where I should even begin starting to try to figure out how to do this?

LED Ticker Help
Hello there everyone. I came accross this led scroller HERE and wanted to get some understanding of how it works. so playing with the script i wanted to modify it to retrieve the text from a text file and scrap the enter text and click button concept. only problem is that when i enter the script to loadVariables it wont it goes onto the error checking an writes no text. but when i do it in the button part of the script and press the button in the movie it works fine. can anyone shiine some light onto how i can get this to read from a text file on loading the swf file.
Many thanks in advance

Ticker?
I need something that is probably very simple but i don't know if i can do it in flash , the opener of my webpage is an html page with 2 buttons that launch my borderless html site or my flash site the same way.
All i need is when people go to my site and the page with the 2 buttons opens up that it will open a borderless strip of pics as the same time on top of the page like this:
www.apostrophe.net
Thanks for your help , i don't know if i have to do it in dreamweaver or flash.
Massimo

RSS Ticker
I would like to create an RSS feed reader. i don't want it to be large (two lines max), a title and date, and when the title is clicked it goes to a link. I just don't know where to start so any help will be greatly appreciated!

Ticker
How do I create a newsticker in Flash that contains hyperlinked text and flows from right to left?

Thanks in advance

Please Help Me With My Ticker
It works fine in the beginning, but after a while the clips start catching up to each other and then overlapping...
each clip runs this function

Code:

function () {
if (this._x <= 0-this._width)
{this._x = recycle_spot;} else { this._x-=speed;}
}
anyone know how I can fix this
http://www.rush0.com/images/ticker/test10.swf

I would like it to work exactly like this
http://www.editmyspace.org/flash_sign.php
(scroll down)

anyone have a fla for something like that? It works flawlessly, please help.

Thank you.

SWF Ticker?
This seems like it would be a pretty trivial piece of flash, but I'm not a flash expert at all. Essentially, what I'd like to create is a flash ticker that would scroll news headlines from an XML file that I create on the server (format can be anything easy). The ticker would need to refresh itself every so many minutes (set in the XML File) and the text scrolling on the ticker should be links to the particular pages.

Now that the background is out of the way, a few questions:
1. Is this possible to do in flash? (I'm using MX)
2. Is it going to be complicated to implement
3. Does anyone know about existing projects that could be modified to do this.

Finally, if anyone knows of any good tutorials for Flash MX or this sort of thing (or just wants to do it for me?) I'd love to hear about them.

Thanks!

PS: I know tihs would be easier in other languages (like java, etc...) and I plan to have tickers implemented in those other languages as well.

Ticker Function
Hi Folks,

Here we have a ticker function for you - it's quite simple.

movieclip.prototype.ticker = function (spruch) {
if (i<spruch.length) {
inhalt = inhalt+spruch.charAt(i);
i++;
}
}

Call:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
ticker("Hello is another nice function for your pleasure.

Yours
Flashstar Duo");
}

Example:
http://www.flashangel.de/fla/fsmaschine.swf

We will release the FLA on Flashstar.de...

Be inspired.

yours
Matze K.

Ticker V2 Function
Here another version of the ticker function

movieclip.prototype.ticker = function () {
text=text.slice(1,text.length)+text.slice(0,1)
inhalt=text
}

Call:
onClipEvent (load) {
text = "Here you can enter your text - anything you want !";
}
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
ticker();
}

Beispiel:
Ticker v2

I will publish the FLA on wednesday right here:
http://www.flashstar.de

Be inspired.

yours
Matze K.

Masking Ticker Txt
I'm using automaticly scrolling text in a movie clip.
The text is imported from an external .txt file.
To load the variable txt in the wright way I use

onClipEvent (load) {

etc. on the MC
This works fine.However when i try to mask a part of the MC
the txt will not appear at all!
I tried to use a masked layer in the MC itself and also on the main timeline but no possitive results.
Is there anyone familiar with this problem or can anybody give my some suggestion to solve this problem?
I would be thankfull.

News Ticker
Hi could somebody help me out. I'm trying to make a small box with scrolling text in it, I want the text to scroll like in a news ticker tape script. However I want the scroll to be vertical instead of horizontal.
I'm unsure whether I would use action script to achieve this or is there another way as my action script isn't very good.
If anybody could advise me I'd be most grateful.
Many thanks
Simon

Horizontal Ticker?
Whats the best way to do an endless horizontal ticker? I got a long text, which should restart without any gap when the ticker reaches the end. Should I use 2 instances of the same movie-clip (put the second behind the first, when the first runs out of text), or are there any other ideas?

News Ticker In MX Help....
Hey all, I'm lost on this one...

Does anyone have a tutorial or a sample .fla on how to do a horizontal news ticker that will load in external text and be able to have links in it?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

thanks all.

Creating A Ticker
How do you create a ticker without doing it frame-by-frame?

Thankyou!

I am Fat_N_Furry's little brother. He's teaching me how to use the forum so he doesn't have to answer all my questions.

Vertical Ticker
Hi Does anyone know a tutorial or have a good auto scrolling vertical ticker, they could point me in the direction of?
It needs to be dynamic, basically be able to be updated from a text file or asp, so no tweening can be involved, I've been searching for ages but haven't found anything.
If u need any more clarity get in touch.
Roy

Ticker + Txtfile
I'm using the ticker component of Flash UI Component Set 2. Now I would like to read the information for the ticker out of a textfile. First I made the textfile, it looks something like:
&text1=text1 and more...
&url1=The link to which you go when you click on text1
&text2=More text...
&url2=Another url

In the flash file I use the sentence myComponent.AddItem(NewItem);
NewItem has to be an object, but I can't make an object out of the variables. Can someone please help me?

Ticker Component
I need a ticker that I can change the layout (vertical or Horizontal)
I want to add URL tag to it so I can link other site.
And can someone explain how I can get the data into the ticker.

I have use the ticker from flash component set 2. can someone explain how to get the data in it?

I Need A Ticker Component
I need a ticker that I can change the layout (vertical or Horizontal)
I want to add URL tag to it so I can link other site.
And can someone explain how I can get the data into the ticker.

I have use the ticker from flash component set 2. can someone explain how to get the data in it?

News Ticker
I need to create a flash news ticker. The data comes from a mysql database. I use php pages.
But I don't have any idea how to get the news titles from the database and how to dynamically create the news textboxes.

Help would be more than welcome!

Tanx

Xml And Ticker Component
Hello all,

I'm trying to use an xml feed with the ticker component from the UI set 2. I can access the xml, but i'm having trouble writing this into the ticker.

This is driving me mad, and my boss is not 'appy.

Here's me code:

var theData = new Array();
var tickerData = new DataProviderClass();
xmlFeed = new XML();
xmlFeed.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlFeed.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
//content_feed_display = "Data loaded.";
var mainTag = this.firstChild; // the rss node
var articleList = mainTag.firstChild.childNodes; // child nodes of the channel node
var articleListLength = articleList.length;
for (var i = 0; i < articleListLength; ++i) {
if (articleList[i].nodeName == "item") { // the item nodes
var currItem = articleList[i].childNodes;
var currItemLength = currItem.length;
var feedDataText = new Array();
var feedDataUrl
var feedCounter = 0;
for (var j = 0; j < currItemLength; ++j) {
if (currItem[j].nodeName == "title") {
headline_text = currItem[j].firstChild.nodeValue;
//trace(headline_text);
tickerData.text = headline_text;
} else if (currItem[j].nodeName == "link") {
url = currItem[j].firstChild.nodeValue;
//trace(url);
feedDataUrl[j] = url;
}

feedCounter++;
}
MyComponent.addItem(tickerData);
}
}
}
trace(feedCounter);
for(loop=0;loop<feedCounter;loop++) {
trace(feedDataText[loop]);
trace(feedDataUrl[loop]);
}
};
xmlFeed.load("test.xml");

var success2 = myComponent.setDataProvider(tickerData);

THANKS !!!

Ticker Tape
Can you help!

I have a ticker tape I produced off a tutorial and would like to put all the code and ticker tape into its own seperate movie clip. But everytime i have tried to do this the ticker tape doesn't work!

I hope that makes sense can you help!

I have uploaded the fils to...

http://www.theeskimoproject.com/ticker.html

Cheers

Jemes

Stock Ticker
Hello, I need a stock ticker for my company intranet. I can create the flash portion of the page but am unaware of where I can get the upto date data feed from nyse. Any suggestions? Has anyone attempted this?

Simple Ticker
i'm sure i'm being really stupid but i'm just trying to create a really simple flash ticker which loads text from an external txt file. i can't seem to find anything for flash 5 - all MX although i know it's possible.

can anyone help?

PLEEEEEEAASE!!!

Ticker Component
Has anyone worked with the ticker component that comes in set #2 from Macromedia?

If so, is it possible to make the ticker work similar to what is on Macromedia's site currently?

Thanks.

News Ticker
Can anyone point me to a tutorial on a simple 'news ticker'. Well, actually I just need the effect of scrolling text in a dynamic textfield, but you know what I mean.
If you have an old code hidden away, that will do just fine too.
I know, this is very basic, but that's just how it is ..

Lars

Stock Ticker
I need to add a company stock price ticker to their website. Is there a code component somewhere that I can get or does anybody know how to do that in Flash?

Ticker Seen On Swf But Not On Html?
i have yet to clear some bugs on this ticker i am trying to get working, but this is one problem i never thought i would ever experience...

for some weird reson, this swf file has the ticker loading and working semi properly, but when i use an html file to read the swf the ticker dosent display...

can anyone help me out?

i attached my .fla here

thanks
Psycho

Scrolling Ticker
I'm trying to find a tutorial on creating a scrolling 'news ticker':
I am after a simple box which loads in text from an external file and displays it scrolling horizontally... can anyone point me in the right direction I have been bouncing around the tutorials for nearly an hour!!!!!

ESPN Ticker
I am trying to create a scrolling ticker very similar to the one used by espn (http://espn.go.com/bottomline/)

Basically it scrolls text fields that are loaded with data from a database and once all info is viewed goes to the next subject or frame.

Has anyone ever worked on anything like this? Any tutorials?

I need to get this done quickly so any responses are appreciated.

Flash Ticker
Is there any tutorial for developing Flash Ticker. I want some news to appear scrolling dynamically with the help of database. Basically there will be some urls and anybody clicks on the url they will be sent to the same url.

Help With A Simple Ticker?
Hi,

I'm fairly new to actionscript and I'm having problems with a news ticker and was wondering if anyone would be able to help me?

The ticker runs off an external .as file that read like this:

news = Array();

news[0] = "Item 1";
news[1] = "Item 2";
news[2] = "Item 3";

I have managed to get this ticker working but after news[2] I get a pause like it's trying to diplay a news item that doesn't exist.

My actions layer where I'm having the problem looks like this:

newsdisplay = news[count];

if(count == newsitems) {
count = 0;
} else {
count = +1;
}

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Ticker From Component Set 2
I just downloaded the component set 2 from the macromedia exchange and the documentation is nill. I would really appreciate it if someone could guide me towards a tutorial or just let me now how i could update a file that would be accessed by the ticker. This would make me very happy.
Love,
Radler

Ticker Fade
Hi, I am making a news ticker on my website. I also have a button that goes to and plays a movie clip where everything fades. Now, the ticker is going to be continuously playing. How would I make the ticker fade at any given point when the button is clicked?

In Need Of A Ticker Tutorial
Greetings good people!
I'm in dire need - if anyone knows where I can find a tute to make a ticker like the one on this site (I need the complete functionality here):
http://www.flashmove.com/
please let me know.

Modify Ticker
Hello!

I've found this excellent news ticker on the tutorials, but I would like to make an alteration to it.

As the news ticker comes it will go through the XML list and display each line one after another. What I would like it do is randomly select which line it will display within the list.

I've tried to make changes, but with it using Dutch variable names and my extreme noobieness to action scripting, I'm struggling

link: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Scrip...7266/index.php

If anyone can help it would be appreciated

I have emailed the original developer for feedback but waiting on reply.

thks!
z3ph.

Stock Ticker Help
Hey all, I have an interesting issue. I obviously underestimated this one. I am doing a spoof on the intro to The Apprentice and when the candidates are introduced their names scroll amongst stock quotes on a ticker board. The unique problem is that the ticker has an angled perspective that goes off into the distance.

Now since you can't take a graphic or a movie clip and apply a perspective transformation to it like you would a vector, how can this be done?

I suppose I could break the text apart, transform the perspective, make it a movie clip and simply scale it as it scrolls but this causes lots of problems because the text is so long it won't fit on the artboard and I have 15 different contestants to do. I want to find a solution that I could just duplicate 15 times.

Thoughts?

CNN Style Ticker

I'm looking for a ticker like CNN where after each news headline their logo scrolls with next news headline.anyone got a tip?

I'm looking for a ticker like CNN where after each news headline their logo scrolls with next news headline.

anyone got a tip?