By c-m on

Still working on gaining all the functionality I want be the design process begins.

My next challenge is a vertical scrolling news ticker in a confined area.

Is there a module in drupal that will allow me to add a ticker which will scroll through my latest news?

I want it show the headline and a 10 word teaser if possible.

Something similar to the ticker in the site below:
http://www.creativenorfolk.com/

Thanks in advance for your help

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c-m commented

I've seen there is a taxonomy ticker module, but there are no screen shots or demo sites of it in action. Can that module do what i'm asking?

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c-m commented

Does anyone know of a drupal site containing a news ticker? And how they achieved it?

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poiu commented

It's a test site on localhost, so no demo, sorry.

Basically, I used the code from http://jscroller.markusbordihn.de/, stuffed jscroller.0.3.js in drupal's misc dir, added the relevant CSS bits to my theme, created a new view that provides a block view, and put drupal_add_js( "misc/jscroller.0.3.js" ) in the block's header.

Than I changed the beginning of jscroller.0.3.js to look like this (id and cont_id are the important parts):

$(document).ready(function(){
   this.defaults = {
     scroller: {
       interval:  0,    // Dont touch !
       refresh:   100,  // Refresh Time in ms
       direction: "up", // down,right,left,up
       speed:     1,    // Set the Scroller Speed
       id:        "#block-views-news_scroller > div", // The scrolling content div
       cont_id:   "#block-views-news_scroller" // The container div
     }
   }

Still didn't work until I changed the 1st line of the jscroller_doScroll function (in jscroller.0.3.js) from:
if (scroller_dom = jscroller_getElem(jscroller_scroller.attr("id"))) {
to:
if (scroller_dom = jscroller_scroller[0]) {

Works for me in FF, IE6, IE7, Opera 9 and Konqueror but it doesn't stop scrolling when you hover over it.

I hope I haven't forgotten any steps along the way, good luck.

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c-m commented

A new ticker looks beyond me at the moment.

I've got most of the functionality so I'll move onto the actual design now. Cheers, now.

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s@ilor commented

Hi there,

Was looking for something like this - in fact; I'm trying everything, I can find, but so far with no convincing result.

Then I found this little piece about the news ticker last night, and had to try it...

I'm running a Drupal 6.2 on a localhost (with a modified fourseasons theme).

Followed the bits about Jscroller, made the parts regarding the .css and the .js and Views ...

So far, I have a block. It's loaded with all the content accessible from the frontpage down to "Terms of Use" and "Poll", teasers and what-have-you ...
It's not scrolling.

How can I control what content to load? Can I make a category of nodes, and ask only to load these?

Cheers,

-- Christian

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suoko commented

In the block I can change "Title" and "Pages" only.
Do I have to change php code ?

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druvision commented

Looking at your site, It seems you have managed to get a reasonable scrolling solution to work after all.

I've got a scroller working using the new views_ticker module (demo: http://shopil.co.il), however your solution scrolls much more smoothly. Are you ready to tell how did you do it?

Thanks

Amnon
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Bradlinsky commented

Love what creativenorfolk has done! I'd like to see how they did it, as well. Something like this would be fantastic for our site!

Thanks,

Bradley

Bradley Kirkland
Gaming4Health.com

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lameei commented

I also looking for a solution!

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Carolee commented

I installed the views ticker but can't find where to configure it. All the support modules haev been installed but I don't see a configuration option anywhere.

Can someone point me in the right direction?