Flash News Ticker

Our Flash News Ticker can display text links specified in a XML configuration file. News links are scrolled from the bottom to the top. The Flash News Ticker allow you to set the text color & the mouse over color, different link urls & their click targets, scrolling interval & step, background imge & animation effect...etc. All the configurations can be done in the XML file.

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Usage Guide

The package consists of 5 files: news_ticker.swf, apple.jpg, snow.swf, conf.xml and sample.html. conf.xml is the configuration file where you can specify the "news" (text links) you want to display. Apple.jpg is the background image and the snow.swf is the animation effect file (and yes, you can change to use other image & effects by changing the xml file). Detailed parameter settings are listed below.

To run a quick test:

Unzip the package on your local machine or on your server, open the "sample.html" file on the browser, you should then be able to see the news ticker tool running.

Configuring the Flash News Ticker:

Parameters inside the <settings> tag:

Param Name	Description	Possible Values
background	specify the background image (or flash movie) you want to use.	filename / url of the background image/swf
effect	animation effect that will be placed on top of the background.	filename / url of the effect flash swf
fontcolor	the text color of the news link	RGB color value in hex format, e.g. "0xffffff"
rollovercolor	the color of the news link when mouse over	RGB color value in hex fomat
interval	the time interval (in mini seconds) for updating/scrolling the text link. You can tune this with the "step" param to adjust the scrolling speed.	> 0
step	the step (in pixel) for every scrolling.	> 0
rolloverstop	specify whether the scrolling should stop when mouse over the news links	1 or 0

Parameters for the news items (<item> tag):

Param Name	Description	Possible Values
heading	the news heading	string
url	the url the news points to	url
target	the click target, leave it empty if you want to open the news link in the same browser.	"", "_blank"...etc

Note: When inserting the flash news ticker into you web page, please remember to put the string: "?conf=conf.xml" after the filename of the news ticker (which appears in 2 places). e.g. "news_ticker?conf=conf.xml".

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