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Scrolling text from htmlblob?

Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:20 pm
by jah
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?

Scrolling text from htmlblob?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:40 am
by Ted
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.

Scrolling text from htmlblob?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:15 pm
by Anonymous
There is no link to the download of this plugin. Any idea where it has gone?

Scrolling text from htmlblob?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 12:43 pm
by Ted
Very strange. Anyway, with a little guess work, I found it at: http://svr.techcom.dyndns.org/projects/ ... ee.php.txt

Scrolling text from htmlblob?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:08 pm
by jah
Thanks Wishy,
It works the way it should :D
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.

Scrolling text from htmlblob?

Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:52 pm
by Ted
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.