News scroller wanted

Poster: fredlongworthhighschool
Dated: Wednesday October 15 2003 - 14:59:58 BST

Hi all,

I'm looking for a news ticker script / utility that gets it's data from a text file. Does anyone know or use such a program?

Thanks

Andy.

Poster: John
Dated: Wednesday October 15 2003 - 15:09:51 BST

Don't use one myself, but if you hit Google with news ticker script you'll get back enough to keep you busy for a few months

Poster: fredlongworthhighschool
Dated: Friday October 17 2003 - 8:29:33 BST

Found loads, all of various qualities. I wondered if anyone was using one on their site that they could recommend.

Poster: Hergio
Dated: Friday October 17 2003 - 15:39:57 BST

I've seen this one used and have liked it.
http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicinde ... scroll.htm

Poster: tepidarium
Dated: Thursday October 23 2003 - 15:20:28 BST



This one is good except it doesn't work on netscape 4.7...

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday October 23 2003 - 15:29:42 BST

My guess would be you're going to have some serious trouble filling that requirement...

Poster: Andy
Dated: Thursday October 23 2003 - 16:31:20 BST

I'll let you into a little secret

The menu was built in such a way that it will ulimately become an API for other stuff, for example news tickers etc.

All we need is a bolt on module that will probably be about 1k in size, maybe even less. It will be quite simple and anybody with a knowledge of JavaScript could write one. It will use most of the code already written in the menu. The only reason I've not mentioned this before is because it will need lots of documentation and more testing.

Leave it with me an I'll see what I can do.

Cheers
Andy

Poster: John
Dated: Thursday October 23 2003 - 16:34:58 BST


Oh, great - now he's keeping secrets

What say, Dave - a smack up 'side da head...

Poster: Andy
Dated: Thursday October 23 2003 - 22:25:58 BST

If only I had the time to document all my ideas. They will come out eventually.

Cheers
Andy

Poster: Hergio
Dated: Friday October 24 2003 - 1:15:28 BST

My gosh, I had absolutely no idea you had so much up your sleeve. I knew you had a ton of ideas, and you're making your mark on the world (internet) but I didn't know you were already creating them. Very nice....can't wait to see more as Milonic becomes bigger and better!

Poster: tepidarium
Dated: Friday October 24 2003 - 21:44:49 BST



Which is why I use a flash new scroller on my page, which is why the menu drops behind it, which is why I was hoping for something like a hidediv Oy...I wish people would erase NS 4.7!

Poster: Andy
Dated: Friday October 24 2003 - 21:57:31 BST

You got a sample of this news scroller that we can see it?

My view has always been that anything Flash can do, JavaScript can also do. Provided you have the right tool to do it and this is, hopefully, where we come in.

Cheers
Andy

Poster: tepidarium
Dated: Sunday October 26 2003 - 1:34:54 GMT



Hi Andy,
THe scroller is on the main page of the site, and, alternatively on the milonic menu test page that I'm using at:
http://www.citytech.cuny.edu/m-menu4.html

It's under the main menu on the right hand side.

Hope you're feeling better!

Poster: fredlongworthhighschool
Dated: Thursday November 6 2003 - 23:26:43 GMT

In the end I went with this http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex2/iframe-scroller.htm one. It's quick and does exactly what I need.