News Scroller

[Flep]

Hi all !
One more free utility for FlepStudio's users.
It is an horizontal scroller. You can scroll the news of your site.
Simple to update from a XML file.

Let's see it...

NEWS SCROLLER

horizontal scroller

Description

Horizontal scroller.

Reads from XML file.

Each news is clickable.

Text and url options using the XML file.

Files package

main.fla

main.swf

Main.as

news.xml

readme.txt

Important

Change the url to XML file: LoadingXML.as line 34

Source files:

[Grobermatic]

Does anyone know how to edit the code so that the text is LEFT justified?... I have tried

format.align= "Center";

but it doesn't work?? Does it have anything to do with the registration point?

Regards


Craig

[Flep]

Hi,

format.align=TextFormatAlign.LEFT;

[skudu]

Hi there Flep, happy new year and all the best for 2008.
I am still pretty new to all the uploading and installing buissiness, could you help me with a step by step installing say of the news scroller into a dreamweaver file.
where do i put the xml file and so on??

[Flep]

Hi skudu and welcome
Happy new year !

- open LoadingXML.as and change this line:

var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest('http://www.flepstudio.org/utilita/NewsScroller/news.xml');

with

var request:URLRequest=new URLRequest('news.xml');

- re-publish the SWF from the FLA

- insert the SWF into your Dreamweaver HTML page.

Keep the XML in the same folder of the SWF.

[skudu]

Thanks Flep

When i try and re-publish the SWF from the FLA in my macromedia flash mx2004 it says that it does not recognise the file format.
Do i have the right version of flash?

[Flep]

You need CS3 version:
Adobe - Flash CS3 Professional, Interactive Multimedia, Interactive Design

[tacec]

This is great! You have no idea how long I've been looking for a scroller like this.

So, since I'm pretty new to actionscript, how could I apply this scroller with an RSS feed? (ex. Traffic Conditions - Seattle) I figured since RSS feeds are pretty much XML it wouldn't be too hard....or am I just dreaming?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
thanks!

[assenoost]

very nice! looks good. I've got one problem though and i see the example above has the same problem.

For some reason it does not load the correct url when you click an item. Instead in constantly opens:

http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/[object%20Object] instead of the actual url that is set.

[assenoost]

Originally Posted by assenoost

very nice! looks good. I've got one problem though and i see the example above has the same problem.

For some reason it does not load the correct url when you click an item. Instead in constantly opens:

http://www.flepstudio.org/forum/[object%20Object] instead of the actual url that is set.

anyone ?