Example of interesting ticker rss feed?

1

I tried modifying the Kirupa photo-viewer to work more like a news ticker that scrolls through 4 to 6 news items (from xml) and shows a background image and corresponds to a small thumbnail numbered list so that if you missed the news article you wanted you could click back a number to retrieve that article. The idea is to click on the TEXT of the ticker/rss feed to link to another page.

Best example I can find is this:

The problem is I can’t get the dynamic text to work as a link.
I switched out:

	//
	//getURL statement
	//
	picture.onRelease = function() {
		getURL(link[p], "_blank");
	};
	//

with:

	//
	//getURL statement
	//
	desc_txt.onRelease = function() {
		getURL(link[p], "_blank");
	};
	//

which didn’t work.

So the question is does anyone know of a good tutorial that might explain this? I’m currently working through the Kirupa News Ticker tutorial which will be ok for now but I’d like to add images and some sort of call-back feature.

And forgive me if I have the terminology wrong (ticker, rss, ???) but hopefully my basic point is clear.

Thanks!

2

I think I understand what you are looking for. The closest thing that I could find in this particular forum was this tutorial:

http://www.kirupa.com/web/xml/examples/portfolio.htm

I’m not sure if this helps, if not let me know & I’ll try again. Good Luck!

3

Thanks - that looks promising! I’ll be out of town for a few days but will give it a try early next week to see if I can blend it with the slideshow code.

4

You may take a look at this XML news tab which can be modified to fit your needs.