# News flash in flash 5 **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [August 26, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946 "2002-08-26T05:18:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Deepa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/91b2a8/32.png) [@Deepa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Deepa)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2002, 5:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/1 "2002-08-26T05:18:30Z")
Hi everybody, i’m a web page designer i want to insert a news ticker in my site i’ve flash 5 at my office and am not able to do it…can anybody pls. help me out. i also want it to run thru an external source… \*.txt, or something like that. pls pls help me. regards, deepa. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/2 "2002-08-27T06:10:28Z")
I’m not sure… but I think that colin moock has a tutorial on that somewhere… if not, I’ll bet that there is one on [www.flashkit.com](http://www.flashkit.com). I’ve been interested in this myself though so eventually kirupa will have one as well. I have to work out some functions in the morning that related to this so if you can wait for a while I’ll see what I can come up with to help you. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/3 "2002-08-27T11:35:22Z")
thanks David, i myself my trying out things…but somehow they r not working. there aint any option until i get the things ready…but to wait!!! so, if the thing is ready do let me know. cheers, deepa. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2002, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/4 "2002-08-27T15:33:13Z")
you ARE talking about a side scrolling single line of text right? just making sure we’re on the same page. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2002, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/5 "2002-08-28T19:04:20Z")
Hey hey… my news ticker example is done. You can find it at [http://www.centerspin.com/download/newsticker.zip](http://www.centerspin.com/download/newsticker.zip) Please enjoy, and if you have any questions let me know. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/6 "2002-08-29T09:23:04Z")
Thanks David u’ve been of gr8 help. this is what i was looking for. if i’ve any doubts i’ll let u know. Cheers! Deepa. =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 9:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/7 "2002-08-29T09:48:05Z")
Hi, Deepa Here is another example of how to make a news ticker, its a different way to how David has done his as this is just a simple newsticker, but feel free to do with as you like if you prefer I can show you how to make a news ticker using XML as input. All you have to do is put the news into the xml-file and the movie does the rest. You can add as many sentences as you want. although I think that is pretty much how David has done his i’ve took the liberty of downloading a copy of his version (cheers David) I haven’t yet taken a good look at it, but he is usually spot on with his approach still it might be handy for you to have more than one way of doing this:bandit: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 9:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/8 "2002-08-29T09:59:34Z")
I know it’s not made with Flash, but there’s a cute JavaScript tickertape on [Churchill.com](http://www.churchill.com). Shameless bit of promotion and plugging there. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 11:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/9 "2002-08-29T11:32:54Z")
Thanks Chris, but i wanted the sentence to be extracted from an external source … the one on davids line. anyways thanks. may be i can use it some other time. cheers, Deepa. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2002, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/10 "2002-08-29T11:42:13Z")
Actually an XML based one would be a little quicker to load once the file gets large enough, and would also be externaly driven. I had kind of thought about putting notes into the readme file that would let a person do the xml instead of the txt. I think for beginners it’s good to get used to loading up variables from a text file though… (no white space striping involved) hence the way I set it up. Both would be from external files though. Thanks for all the comments. I really worked hard on that one. I plan on encorporating it into my site soon, but I love when other people can gain a bit from my work as well. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 5:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/11 "2002-09-02T05:25:30Z")
hey david, sorry to bother u but theres a prob with the movie that u had given. the movie size i want is 771px. i’ve made the changes in movie properties and also in the action script. but the its taking lot of time for the initial text to scroll. i mean in the strating its taking time. hope u r getting my point , i’m attaching the fla file, hope u help me out. ragards, deepa. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/12 "2002-09-02T06:40:24Z")
Yes that text ticker will only work at the size I created it. It would have to have some pretty serious retooling to work at a larger size, and it might not even work really well at that size. I’ll see what I can do though. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2002, 6:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/13 "2002-09-02T06:48:41Z")
thanks david, that will b really gr8, is there any other alternative??? regards, deepa. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/news-flash-in-flash-5/4946/14 "2002-09-03T04:51:21Z")
I was thinking about one… but didn’t persue it yet, as I was working on other things… perhaps I’ll try that out in the morning sometime. I should have some free time, finaly, tomarrow. I have some fixes on my own site that I need to make.