Vertical Scrolling News Ticker

Vertical News Ticker
Hello everyone,

Im trying to create a vertical scrolling news ticker where it continuously loop in a small rectangular text box, is there any way of doing this. I would appreciate it if someone could point me in the right direction.

thanks

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The Vertical News Ticker
Does anyone know any good tutorials for a basic vertical news ticker. Pretty much this one: http://www.flashkit.com/movies/launc...426&bg=#ffffff

Thanks,
FiNcH

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Help Doing Vertical News Ticker
Hello ppl,

I am newbie about flash and all things related...
but with some tutorials i can manage myself

I was trying to make a news ticker that scrolls vertical, but i can't find anywhere!

Does anyone know where i can find a tutorial or something , I would appreciate!

Thanks

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Vertical Scroller/News Ticker
I am looking for tutorial/instructions to create a Flash Vertical Scroller/News Ticker that reads a text file, where the news/headlines are updated frequently.

And, more importantly, is Flash (what version) capable of this?


Mike

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Creating Vertical News Ticker In Flash
hello friends,
I am new to flash, but i want to create a vertical news ticker that will be displayed on my front page showing recent news. can u tell me the tutorial for that. i have downloaded readymade tickers, but having some problems while using that. I want to create my own, so pleaze help me for that.


thanks
pankaj

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News Ticker Not Scrolling
I have your typical continuously scrolling news ticker that takes text from an external file. The problem is that the text does not scroll. It will display 10 lines of text and not scroll. It's supposed to scroll up in batches of 10 lines at a time.

My code:

temp_stuff = substring(message1, counted1, 1);
if (temp_stuff ne "$") {
if (temp_stuff eq "%") {
temp_stuff = "
" add "> ";
}
textfield1 = textfield1 add temp_stuff;
trace (eval ("textfield1.maxscroll"));
eval ("textfield1.scroll++") = eval ("textfield1.maxscroll");
gotoAndPlay (35);
} else {
trace ("$ detected!!");
done = 1;
}
if (done == 0) {

gotoAndPlay (35);
} else {
gotoAndPlay (38);
}

The code that's supposed to be scrolling the text.

textfield1 = textfield1 add temp_stuff;
trace (eval ("textfield1.maxscroll"));
eval ("textfield1.scroll++") = eval ("textfield1.maxscroll");


Mind you that I'm not a master of AC and a colleague wrote this code. But it does not work? What's broken?

Could someone provide an education on how a continuously scrolling news ticker is supposed to work.

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Scrolling News Ticker HELP?
Can anyone help me with a scrolling news ticker that links to an external text document? I'd like something like an old school applet, but done in Flash. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

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Help With AS3 Scrolling News Ticker
I am trying to make a AS3 version of a scrolling news ticker although i seem to be having trouble. The code below doesn't seem to be working although its not throwing any errors. I think its not loading my xml nodes or something.

All i am trying to do is it to eventually load an rss feed and scroll a selected set of nodes. For now i just tried to get it to display an xml formated file since rss is xml formated. Ultimately for this example i just want it to display the title attribute of every item.

What am i doing wrong?


Code:
news_txt.x = 1024.0;
var count:int;
var textnode:String;
var loader:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
loader.dataFormat = URLLoaderDataFormat.TEXT;
loader.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);

loader.load(new URLRequest("http://www.xlr8mobile.com/widgetdata/beowulf/audio.xml"));


function onComplete(event:Event):void
{
try {
var news:XML = new XML(event.target.data);
news_txt.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onEnter);
for each (var ticker:XML in news.newsitem.text()) {
textnode += ticker + " ";
news_txt.width += textnode.length;
news_txt.text = textnode;
}



} catch (e:TypeError) {

news_txt.x = 512.0;
news_txt.text = "Could not create valid xml instance";
}
}

function onEnter(event:Event):void
{
//scrolls the text field
news_txt.x--;
if (news_txt.x == -1024.0) {
news_txt.x = 1024.0;
}
}

trace("text position " + news_txt.x)
Is their a simpler way to create this in AS3 then how i am doing it? If there is i would love to see an example of how to do it.

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Scrolling News Ticker At An Angle
I'm very new to using Flash, and am looking for help in creating a flash object that doesn't seem to be discussed in many of the general purpose tutorials for the program.

For a site I'm putting together a client wants a horizontally scrolling and dynamically updated news ticker, which would probably be easy enough to do in Javascript or php; the problem is that the client would really like to have this ticker presented at a slight angle.

I've searched online for most of the day and have found a number of solutions that would be easy to implement if the ticker was truly horizontal; I downloaded a flash example and found that once I rotated the dynamic text box that pulled its contents from an outside file it stopped showing the text in the final movie. I'm beginning to think that this problem is exceptionally out of my leage right now and that I should tell the client that what he wants just can't be done.

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Scrolling (news Ticker) Problem
Hi guys,

I have a massive bit of text that i want to scroll from one side of the stage to the other.

It's to go on a website that just wants words to scroll accross the screen one after the next

I've tried putting all the text into one single line text box and tweening it accross the stage, but it just stutters and my computer can't handle it

I was just wondering if there's any way to do it in actionscript as this will call less on the pc's processor.

Thanks alot,

Dave

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News Ticker/non-scrolling Text
I am trying to create a news ticker that is similar to the one on this page:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

at the top of the page it says "Latest: news blah blah" and it types out each headline instead of scrolling it.

I have searched the forum, but I can't seem to find anything besides the scrolling news tickers.

Anyone know of any tutorials or tricks on this?

Thanks A lot!


Just wanted to add in a side note... The ticker on this page is actually using javascript, but I was hoping something similar could be reproduced in flash

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News Ticker Or Scrolling Tutorial?
Friends,
I have a html formatted external text file. I am trying to load it onto a dynamic text box and try to do the automatic (news-ticker or news scroller kind of effect) scrolling. Once this is done, for further news updates, only the text file should be edited. I tried many ways and couldn't figure it out. If you know any place I can dig into any tutorial or example, please let me know.
Thank you!

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Horizontal Scrolling News Ticker
I have been able to pull text from a dynamic text file, however I'm unable to locate information on how to get this info to scroll smoothly horizontally.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Horizontal Scrolling News Ticker
I have been able to pull text from a dynamic text file, however I'm unable to locate information on how to get this info to scroll smoothly horizontally.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Scrolling News Ticker With Interactive Scroll Bar
I'm trying to create interactive news ticker onto my site. It will contain headlines that I want to be able to link to a page. I want it to move automatically, but also be able to drag the scroll bar on the left to stop and go when necessary.

Please help?

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Automatic Scrolling Text - News Ticker
I want to create vertical scrolling text that has 3 different screens. For example, like the one that's here: http://www.scriptocean.com/flashscroll/index.html

I know how I can do this in HTML/Javascript, but how do I do this in Flash Professional 8? Any ideas would be extremely helpful! Also, I need to be able to hyperlink to external pages too.

Thanks!

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Auto Scrolling Dynamic Text Field(news Ticker)
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Thanks in advance for your help.

Bill

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Scrolling "News Ticker" With Links And Data Base Interaction
Hello there,

I was asked to do a news ticker (that would get the news text from a txt file, or PHP or anything else) that you can put unlimited news to be scrolling in a field, and every 'news' would have to have a link on it.

Now the questions:
1 - How can I put a 'news' after another? Should I have to detect the string lenght?

2 - How can I put a link on it? And how the link would follow the news?

3 - How can I detect the total number of news to make a loop?

Would it be too hard to do?
Any comments are greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance,

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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

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Vertical Ticker From A Txt File
Hi everybody, i'm losing my mind to find some script for Flash that can helps me.

I'm trying to find some script that ables to make a vertical ticker effect inside a Flash movie, an external txt file. I would like to scroll this text automatically, like the end titles in a film, and to scroll them very very slowly. Anyone can helps me? Thanx in advance.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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Need News Ticker
I am in search of a news ticker component.
Not just a horizontal slider, but a textbox that can have links and scrolls vertically. Also would like it to be loaded externally by xml..

Can anyone make some suggestions to find a tutorial or component.
thanks

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Help With News Ticker
I am lookign for a news box ticker tutorial or component. I have been unable to find one.. I am lookign for what that text is loaded dynamically.

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

Thanks

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Ticker News
Hello people... at first sorry by my bad english..

so.. i'm a PHP programmer and i'm working in a portal project and my customer wants to show the news in his website in a little flash presentation.
So, these news shoud be dynamic (come from a database)
Ok, I had studed a few about flash and php interation and i can get data from php to the flash presentation.
but i have no idea to create this movie ..
if anyone had some sample or example to send me it will help me a lot ..

For those that are understand nothing what i'm saying you can can check in this website (www.ig.com.br).. There ther's a example of what i need..

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News Ticker
Hi ,

I'm in the process of building a news ticker for my home page. I'm using external txt file, the problem I am having is I would like the links that you press on the news ticker to open in a new window. I've tried the target="_blank" but I don't think that works in txt file, or i'm putting it in wrong place! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, if you need me to explain better let me know. Below is the way the link is at the moment:

message1=Harrison will be a star - Maloney&link1=http://www.sussexexboxers.com/newsite/news.html#newsite&date1=06/10/05-View story and comment

thank you

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News Ticker
I need a news ticker, please.

Thanks.

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I Need With News Ticker
I need a news ticker free.

Any idea?

Thansk.

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RSS News Ticker Help
Hello there,

New to the site and flash so very much hoping I can find what I'm after here.

I have spent hours over the last few days trying to find a news ticker that’s suits my needs.

What I am after is..........a ticker that has a constant horizontal scroll from right to left that reads in news from RSS feeds. The best way to describe what I am after is what you see on a news channels.

The type that scrolls across the bottom of the screen. See www.worldflash.com for a good example of what it needs to look like and do.

It's for a offline webpage so PHP/downloadable programmes etc are out of the question. I am at a loss, I cant find Tuts, downloads etc etc anywhere.

Has anyone got an Idea, I'm starting to get desperate now lol.

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News Ticker?
I'm not new to flash I have been using the animation side of flash but, I have only just begun to realize the potential of AS. Anyway my question is whether or not this is possible and if so can someone please show me how! it would be so greatly appreciated ok here goes. This is what I want a text box that loads text externally so flash inst needed to update the news each day and then through actionscript allows that text to move like a news feed ticker. Sorta like the one you see on G4 or On CNN. My mind can't possibly grasp this concept (if it is possible at all) I hope someone can help me figure it out and help me with my actionscript Thanks in advance I leave a copy of what I have done so far..its not much but yeah. Cheers.

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News Ticker
Anyone know how to create a srolling news ticker? Like on news programs? I tried just using a motion tween, but it looks really choppy.

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Need XML News Ticker Help
Hi,
Please view http://pdim.net/XMLTicker/ .
1) I need help to set URL links to the specified URL on the individual URL items to open up a _blank browser window.
2) The contents are generated through external XML file.

Here are the ActionScript below (Please keep in mind that there are 5 rows dynamic text fields each titled from "Zeile0 - Zeile 4"):

ON FRAME 1 :

ActionScript Code:
// Init variables

// Maximum Number of Chars in one Line
var maxZeichen = 63;
// Number of Lines
var zeilenAnzahl = 5;
// Looping the whole Ticker-Text enabled (true/false)
//var loopText = false;

// ------


// tickerText which should show up at the start if there is no XML to be loaded and parsed
var lauftext = "";
// Number of chars in tickertext
var lauftextLen = lauftext.length;


// Init counter
var counterZeichen = 0;
var aktZeile = 0;

// initialize array of rows
zeilen = new Array(zeilenAnzahl);
for (var i=0;i<zeilenAnzahl;i++) {
zeilen[i] = "";
}

// Copy the rows in in the textfields
function copyTextField(num) {
set ("zeile" + num, zeilen[num]);
}

// add next char
function printNextChar() {
var wordChar = "";
var wordCharLen = 0;
var umbruch = false;
// are there any chars left in tickertext?
if (counterZeichen < lauftextLen) {
// How long is the next word?
while ((counterZeichen+wordCharLen < lauftextLen) && (wordChar != " ")) {
wordCharLen++;
wordChar = lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen);
if ((lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen)+lauf text.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen+1)) == "/n") {
umbruch = true;
break;
}
}
// Does the word fit in the row (are there enough chars left)
if (!umbruch) {
if ((zeilen[aktZeile].length + wordCharLen) < maxZeichen) {
// get next char
thisChar = lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen);
// add next char
zeilen[aktZeile] += lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen);
// copy text in textfield
copyTextField(aktZeile);
// add to charcounter
counterZeichen ++;
}
else {
// Are there any rows left?
if (aktZeile + 1 < zeilenAnzahl) aktZeile++;
else {
// copy rows
for (var i = 0; i < zeilenAnzahl;i++) {
zeilen[i] = zeilen[i+1].valueOf();
copyTextField(i);
}
}
// add [Space]
counterZeichen++;
}
}
else {
// Zeilenumbruch
// Are there any rows left?
if (aktZeile + 1 < zeilenAnzahl) aktZeile++;
else {
// copy rows
for (var i = 0; i < zeilenAnzahl;i++) {
zeilen[i] = zeilen[i+1].valueOf();
copyTextField(i);
}
}
// add [Space]
counterZeichen+= 3;
}
}
else {
// Text is loaded, loop text?
//if (!loopText) stop();
//else counterZeichen = 0;
counterZeichen = 0;
}
}


// XML

// New XML object
urlText = new XML();
urlText.load("text.xml");
urlText.onLoad = onXmlText;


// Read text from XML-file
function onXmlText() {
mainTag = new XML;
mainTag = this.lastChild.previousSibling;
if(mainTag.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "tickertext") {
lauftext = mainTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
lauftextLen = lauftext.length;
}
}
FRAME 2:

ActionScript Code:
printNextChar();
FRAME 3:

ActionScript Code:
gotoAndPlay(2);
Here is the XML file:

Code:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<tickertext>-http://macromedia.com /n-http://adobe.com /n-http://apple.com /n-http://microsoft.com /n-http://amazon.com /n-http://google.com /n-http://gunstig.de /n /n </tickertext>
Thanks for any help in this.

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News Ticker
Hi

Im trying build a news ticker which retrieves text from a .txt file and places it into a dynamic text field. For some reason the text is always cut short (regardless of how long the field is) - is there a limit to how much text can be brought into the dynamic field from the .txt file? - Any thoughts or suggestions most welcome...

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News Ticker
Hi ,

I'm in the process of building a news ticker for my home page. I'm using external txt file, the problem I am having is I would like the links that you press on the news ticker to open in a new window. I've tried the target="_blank" but I don't think that works in txt file, or i'm putting it in wrong place! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, if you need me to explain better let me know. Below is the way the link is at the moment:

message1=Harrison will be a star - Maloney&link1=http://www.sussexexboxers.com/newsite/news.html#newsite&date1=06/10/05-View story and comment

thank you

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News Ticker
Here is a ticker tape I made, it works fine, but I dont know how to change the font/size/color, how would i go about doing that?

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Help With News Ticker
i followed the tutorial on how to make a news ticker, but i cant get it to work. please help!

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News Ticker
attached is the file im working with. whats wrong???

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News Ticker Help
Hey there,
I use to use flash awhile ago, but I can't remember what to do.. and I can't do any actionscript whatsoever.

Can someone help me figure out how to make something like this? www.bigbrothernet.com .. in the middle.. the news ticker thing.. I want something exactly like that.. but of course with my own headlines.

please help

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Xml Fed News Ticker?
i'm trying to figure out a solid way to do this. basically i just want a horizontal news ticker that loops a bunch of news headlines that are housed in an xml file. the headlines will link to pages will the full news story. can anyone help?

thanks in advance!

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Need XML News Ticker Help
Hi,
Please view http://pdim.net/XMLTicker/ .
1) I need help to set URL links to the specified URL on the individual URL items to open up a _blank browser window.
2) The contents are generated through external XML file.

Here are the ActionScript below (Please keep in mind that there are 5 rows dynamic text fields each titled from "Zeile0 - Zeile 4"):

ON FRAME 1 :
// Init variables

// Maximum Number of Chars in one Line
var maxZeichen = 63;
// Number of Lines
var zeilenAnzahl = 5;
// Looping the whole Ticker-Text enabled (true/false)
//var loopText = false;

// ------


// tickerText which should show up at the start if there is no XML to be loaded and parsed
var lauftext = "";
// Number of chars in tickertext
var lauftextLen = lauftext.length;


// Init counter
var counterZeichen = 0;
var aktZeile = 0;

// initialize array of rows
zeilen = new Array(zeilenAnzahl);
for (var i=0;i<zeilenAnzahl;i++) {
zeilen[i] = "";
}

// Copy the rows in in the textfields
function copyTextField(num) {
set ("zeile" + num, zeilen[num]);
}

// add next char
function printNextChar() {
var wordChar = "";
var wordCharLen = 0;
var umbruch = false;
// are there any chars left in tickertext?
if (counterZeichen < lauftextLen) {
// How long is the next word?
while ((counterZeichen+wordCharLen < lauftextLen) && (wordChar != " ")) {
wordCharLen++;
wordChar = lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen);
if ((lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen)+lauf text.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen+1)) == "/n") {
umbruch = true;
break;
}
}
// Does the word fit in the row (are there enough chars left)
if (!umbruch) {
if ((zeilen[aktZeile].length + wordCharLen) < maxZeichen) {
// get next char
thisChar = lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen);
// add next char
zeilen[aktZeile] += lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen);
// copy text in textfield
copyTextField(aktZeile);
// add to charcounter
counterZeichen ++;
}
else {
// Are there any rows left?
if (aktZeile + 1 < zeilenAnzahl) aktZeile++;
else {
// copy rows
for (var i = 0; i < zeilenAnzahl;i++) {
zeilen[i] = zeilen[i+1].valueOf();
copyTextField(i);
}
}
// add [Space]
counterZeichen++;
}
}
else {
// Zeilenumbruch
// Are there any rows left?
if (aktZeile + 1 < zeilenAnzahl) aktZeile++;
else {
// copy rows
for (var i = 0; i < zeilenAnzahl;i++) {
zeilen[i] = zeilen[i+1].valueOf();
copyTextField(i);
}
}
// add [Space]
counterZeichen+= 3;
}
}
else {
// Text is loaded, loop text?
//if (!loopText) stop();
//else counterZeichen = 0;
counterZeichen = 0;
}
}


// XML

// New XML object
urlText = new XML();
urlText.load("text.xml");
urlText.onLoad = onXmlText;


// Read text from XML-file
function onXmlText() {
mainTag = new XML;
mainTag = this.lastChild.previousSibling;
if(mainTag.nodeName.toLowerCase() == "tickertext") {
lauftext = mainTag.firstChild.nodeValue;
lauftextLen = lauftext.length;
}
}

FRAME 2:
printNextChar();

FRAME 3:
gotoAndPlay(2);


Here is the XML file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<tickertext>-http://macromedia.com /n-http://adobe.com /n-http://apple.com /n-http://microsoft.com /n-http://amazon.com /n-http://google.com /n-http://gunstig.de /n /n </tickertext>


Thanks for any help in this.

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News Ticker
I just downloaded the Kirupa source file for the News Ticker under the Flash 2004 area (http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm) and wondered how I can change the size of the dynamic text box to allow a longer message to be displayed. When I scale my box or the news MC the same number of characters are displayed but the font is stretched instead of allowing more characters to be displayed?

Can anybody help?

BK

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News Ticker
Has any one got a clue how to change the news tickers text or change the location of the xml file. it doesn't seem to work when i try....

Please help

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News Ticker.
hi,
I am trying to adapt the News Ticker from the tutorials section to display headlines from the bbc's technology feed, but when i change the url in the code from

xmlData.load("http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/swf/news.xml?blarg="+new Date().getTime());

to

xmlData.load("http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/technology/rss.xml?blarg="+new Date().getTime());

I just get the BBC main headline flashing continuously and it doesn't cycle through the actual news items.

I think this has something to do with how the xml is being parsed, but have so far been unable to get it right. any help would be greatly appreciated.

thanks.

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News Ticker Help - Like Ign
I would like to create a news ticker some what like ign.com and canada.com. Any ideas where and how to start? I would love it to be xml driven. Hope someone can help. I've hit a roadblock with this one.

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News Ticker Q
How can I make the news ticker select random news and how can i get the news fades in?

Thanks

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XML News Ticker?
I have been tasked with creating a news ticker for an NFL fansite. I have found an RSS feed that I can use to power the ticker here:

http://www.totallyscored.com/rss/sport/7

Is it even possible to make a news ticker that will display this 1 entry at a time? I am decent at Flash but programming isn't my strong suit, and this will be my first go round with Flash/ XML.

I heard there can be cross-domain security issues but i don't know how to determine if this will be the case here.

I intend to use the news ticker tutorial from Kirupa:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm

If possible.

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News Ticker
Hi everyone,

I would like to know how to do a news ticker. i've this one from 50 best techniques for flash but is not working . So can anyone please help?
Thanks

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