Hello everyone, I will try and explain my issue as best as I can. I am looking for a marquee type thing where information will slide in real fast from the right and come to a quick halt, after about 20 seconds it slides to the left and while sliding fades out, and a new html snippet slides in. And this process repeats etc. I'm not sure where to look for this? Javascript, DHTML? I'm just not sure, has anyone came across something like this that they could direct me to? Please and thank you! For example: http://www.appletcollection.com/newsticker.html Check out Sample #2 I want exactly that, but it has to allow HTML in it, the above script does not sadly. -Doug
My browser doens't allow any of that stuff near my computer, so I couldn't see anything, but you will basically choose between Flash or Javascript. I'd probably use Javascript... if the text needs to be drawn from a database or something, then AJAX (your server will do the feeding and the Javascript on the site will do the "timing"). You might want to check out something like JonDesgin's Javascript Slideshow (or any Javascript slideshows... they bascically do the same thing) http://smoothslideshow.jondesign.net/ Remember not to put anything in this Javascripted box that absolutely needs to be seen by everyone. Lots of folks avoid Javascript like the plague or surf via public computers with firewalls that block unknown scripts.
Ok thanks! I just want to put stats for my arcade in a scrolling format, so nothing too important. Also, will this be possible if my stats are drawn out from a php code? Like <? echo $hits; ?> or something like that? EDIT: hmmm, this seems to be only for images, i'm looking for a text scroller
I don't know enough Javascript (any, actually) to know how to change what info goes in there, but an image is just content and so is text and so the Javascript is simply taking "something" and scrolling it around and fading it and whatnot... you should be able to stick whatever you want in there, text or images. There may be a script out there already that is more oriented to text and taking inof from PHP... I just don't know it, but surely it's out there in Teh Internetz.