Scrolling text - still

[jeb]

I have again searched for how to do scrolling text on a Xara site - last time, months back, I gave up and there has been little added since then.

There has to be some way of doing this - I mean, it isn't like I am the only one in the world that wants this on a site.

I tried using animation but am not happy with the results.

The best solution seems to be using the "marquee" methoid but all of them I have looked at gives very jerkie text at best.

Isn't there some way of doing this? - jb

[doniggy]

have u tried to fine some html code for this and then to put in body? i used this with some clocks, i made site with analog clock on it so i just add htlm code.

[doniggy]

i found this, so try it if u like http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/html_marquee_code.cfm

[Big Frank]

All done within Xara Designer in a couple of minutes. Just about everything, speed, colour, size, transformation, is configurable.

[doniggy]

can u put here some of this *.xar files u made this scrolling text?

[doniggy]

All done within Xara Designer in a couple of minutes. Just about everything, speed, colour, size, transformation, is configurable.

can u put here some of this *.xar files u made this scrolling text?

[jeb]

David, tks for the files but what you have supplied is the same problems I have had trying to do scrolling text - the text is very jerky and goes all the way across the screen.

I want to put it in a rectangle and smooth it out. Also, I didn't see a way using animation to change color, fonts, etc. but will take a look again tomorrow.

Again, tks for the help - jb

[Big Frank]

@doniggy: these are all flash animations, but if you want to use MARQUEE, I did a tutorial on how to do that here:

http://xaradesigner.co.uk/marquee/

@jeb: the jerkiness of the flash file is dependent on the speed of the animation (the frame rate) and, to a certain extent, the power of your monitor/graphics card. The animations I just did are a fixed width (as with the MARQUEE tutorial), they do not go the whole width, they go the exact width that I designed them at, which was 752 pixels. Here I've put it on a background to demonstrate that:



Here is the XAR file: scrolling_text.xar

@everybody: my name is not David Hockney, it's Frank

[doniggy]

i want to put this scrolling text in postion i wish (shown in this picture - red rectangle )
can u help with htlm code i need to add in Xara? code for scrolling text is


<marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left">Your scrolling text goes here</marquee>

just type the whole code i need to paste, many thanks