# Flash News Ticker

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-news-ticker/258524>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [April 24, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-news-ticker/258524 "2008-04-24T17:50:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![chau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@chau](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chau)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-news-ticker/258524/1 "2008-04-24T17:50:50Z")

</div>

Hi,

I am quite new to Flash and I was recently given an assignment at my internship to create a news ticker that will receive data from an external xml source. I have searched google for tutorials and found myself coming back here regardless of how specific I made me search. And I am willing to learn to do this task rather than use a program that does it for me.

I understood almost everything posted in the tutorial here: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker3.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker3.htm). The only issue I am having it figuring out how to make the text flow from left to right as a marquee animation instead of just appearing and disappearing.

The project size is 470x20 with a transparent background.

Any additional help would be appreciated. Thanks!