# Need XML News Ticker help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-xml-news-ticker-help/75588>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 10, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-xml-news-ticker-help/75588 "2005-01-10T16:06:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![funhyun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@funhyun](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/funhyun)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2005, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-xml-news-ticker-help/75588/1 "2005-01-10T16:06:17Z")

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Hi,  
Please view [http://pdim.net/XMLTicker/](http://pdim.net/XMLTicker/) .

1. I need help to set URL links to the specified URL on the individual URL items to open up a \_blank browser window.
2. The contents are generated through external XML file.

Here are the ActionScript below (Please keep in mind that there are 5 rows dynamic text fields each titled from “Zeile0 - Zeile 4”):

ON FRAME 1 :  
// Init variables

// Maximum Number of Chars in one Line  
var maxZeichen = 63;  
// Number of Lines  
var zeilenAnzahl = 5;  
// Looping the whole Ticker-Text enabled (true/false)  
//var loopText = false;

// ------

// tickerText which should show up at the start if there is no XML to be loaded and parsed  
var lauftext = “”;  
// Number of chars in tickertext  
var lauftextLen = lauftext.length;

// Init counter  
var counterZeichen = 0;  
var aktZeile = 0;

// initialize array of rows  
zeilen = new Array(zeilenAnzahl);  
for (var i=0;i\<zeilenAnzahl;i++) {  
zeilen\* = “”;  
}

// Copy the rows in in the textfields  
function copyTextField(num) {  
set (“zeile” + num, zeilen[num]);  
}

// add next char  
function printNextChar() {  
var wordChar = “”;  
var wordCharLen = 0;  
var umbruch = false;  
// are there any chars left in tickertext?  
if (counterZeichen \< lauftextLen) {  
// How long is the next word?  
while ((counterZeichen+wordCharLen \< lauftextLen) && (wordChar != " ")) {  
wordCharLen++;  
wordChar = lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen);  
if ((lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen)+lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen+wordCharLen+1)) == “/n”) {  
umbruch = true;  
break;  
}  
}  
// Does the word fit in the row (are there enough chars left)  
if (!umbruch) {  
if ((zeilen[aktZeile].length + wordCharLen) \< maxZeichen) {  
// get next char  
thisChar = lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen);  
// add next char  
zeilen[aktZeile] += lauftext.charAt(counterZeichen);  
// copy text in textfield  
copyTextField(aktZeile);  
// add to charcounter  
counterZeichen ++;  
}  
else {  
// Are there any rows left?  
if (aktZeile + 1 \< zeilenAnzahl) aktZeile++;  
else {  
// copy rows  
for (var i = 0; i \< zeilenAnzahl;i++) {  
zeilen\* = zeilen[i+1].valueOf();  
copyTextField(i);  
}  
}  
// add [Space]  
counterZeichen++;  
}  
}  
else {  
// Zeilenumbruch  
// Are there any rows left?  
if (aktZeile + 1 \< zeilenAnzahl) aktZeile++;  
else {  
// copy rows  
for (var i = 0; i \< zeilenAnzahl;i++) {  
zeilen\* = zeilen[i+1].valueOf();  
copyTextField(i);  
}  
}  
// add [Space]  
counterZeichen+= 3;  
}  
}  
else {  
// Text is loaded, loop text?  
//if (!loopText) stop();  
//else counterZeichen = 0;  
counterZeichen = 0;  
}  
}

// XML

// New XML object  
urlText = new XML();  
urlText.load(“text.xml”);  
urlText.onLoad = onXmlText;

// Read text from XML-file  
function onXmlText() {  
mainTag = new XML;  
mainTag = this.lastChild.previousSibling;  
if(mainTag.nodeName.toLowerCase() == “tickertext”) {  
lauftext = mainTag.firstChild.nodeValue;  
lauftextLen = lauftext.length;  
}  
}

FRAME 2:  
printNextChar();

FRAME 3:  
gotoAndPlay(2);

Here is the XML file:  
\<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“iso-8859-1”?\>  
\<tickertext\>-[http://macromedia.com /n-[url=“http://adobe.com/”]http://adobe.com /n-[url=“http://apple.com/”]http://apple.com /n-[url=“http://microsoft.com/”]http://microsoft.com /n-[url=“http://amazon.com/”]http://amazon.com /n-[url=“http://google.com/”]http://google.com /n-[url=“http://gunstig.de/”]http://gunstig.de](http://macromedia.com/) /n /n \</tickertext\>

Thanks for any help in this.