Scrolling text from htmlblob?

jah · Post by **jah** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:20 pm

Is there a way I can scroll the content of an htmlblob vertically?
Basically I'm trying to make it simple for the user to add and remove events that are attracting attention by making it some sort of events ticker.

Javascript seems complicated since the user cannot simply use the WYSIWYG editor because of the javascript code.

I was also thinking that this could be implemented as a simple events module, where the editor can enter time/date, title and description of the event. The events should then automatically be removed from the list when the date is passed.

Any suggestions?

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:40 am

Take a look at http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/pmwiki.ph ... nedPlugins. Calguy has posted a Marquee plugin that might work for you. I've never tried it myself.

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:15 pm

There is no link to the download of this plugin. Any idea where it has gone?

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:43 pm

Very strange. Anyway, with a little guess work, I found it at: http://svr.techcom.dyndns.org/projects/ ... ee.php.txt

jah · Post by **jah** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:08 pm

Thanks Wishy,
It works the way it should

However the problem is that it is difficult for an editor to enter the content like this:
{marquee content="Here is the scrolling text" width"150" etc...}
Maybe I can modify this myself to extract content from the DB.

Ted · Post by **Ted** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:52 pm

It's possible. I'm almost thinking that it would be pretty easy to have the marquee pull an html blob from the database and display what is in it.