Continuous scrolling, please

+1 for this feature

I'm a css and Drupal newbee but to suite my own need of a continous ticker I edited ticketyboo.module to simply duplicate nodes.

That way I get a continous scroll where last item is _immediately_ followed by first item.
While not exactly what you asked for, the method could possibly me modified by inserting empty tickers instead of duplicated ones.

Change 'dupCount' as needed, value depending on ticker size and space available.

$ diff -u ticketyboo.module.orig ticketyboo.module
--- ticketyboo.module.orig 2009-06-24 12:09:00.000000000 +0200
+++ ticketyboo.module 2009-06-27 08:52:21.000000000 +0200
@@ -220,12 +220,26 @@
$i++;
}

+ // continuous ticker by duplication of nodes
+ $dupCount = 4;
+ $count = $i;
+ if (($dupCount > 0) && ($count > 0)) {
+ for ($j = 0; $j < $dupCount; $j++) {
+ $node = node_load(trim($nodes[($j % $count)]));
+ $ret .= '';
+ $ret .= '';
+ $ret .= $node->teaser;
+ $ret .= '';
+ $i++;
+ }
+ }
+
// build a wrapper for the contents
if ($direction == 'horizontal') {
- $w = count($nodes) * ($item_width + $item_spacing);
+ $w = ($dupCount + count($nodes)) * ($item_width + $item_spacing);
$h = $item_height;
} else {
- $h = count($nodes) * ($item_height + $item_spacing);
+ $h = ($dupCount + count($nodes)) * ($item_height + $item_spacing);
$w = $item_width;
}
$wrap_style = "width: {$w}px; height: {$h}px;";

oops. The diff above does not show correctly - empty quotes where div tags occur.
Uploading diff file instead.

Thanks, Ice. Haven't tried it yet, as the client seems fine with the non-scrolling version, but it's good to know it's there. Here's a little something in return: you can use a <code> tag to enclose code on this board, and it will show up just like you want it.