Joomla Scrolling Text and Alert Module

I have spent several hours recently, looking without success for a Joomla module that would allow me to publish item's titles as a scrolling text.

Even though it's an easy task in static html, when it comes to Joomla and Joomla content items, it turned out to be a bit tricky. All of the Joomla modules I managed to find did more than I needed - from image slideshows, image scrolling scripts to ones that scrolled a whole content items through the site.

I noticed on the forums that I'm not the only one  looking for this type of functionality, so I'm uploading it to Joomla extensions directory, while hosting it here on OGO Sense site.

Click here to download, and here to see a demo (external page: www.stmarysmaine.com).

I hope it serves you well. My E-mail is published in the module, and I appreciate any bug reports. 

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written by Daniel Jankovic, August 04, 2008

Just a note to users of the module:
If you want to apply css styling to the module, use the following:
a.scroller { /* your styles */ }
marquee#STAR { /* your styles */ }

First one is good for applying font changes, underlines, font color etc, while second one is good to adjust the background color (for example).

Dan

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written by hans, August 22, 2008

This one is indeed the closest to a simple text ticker. Only thing I would love to have is this combined with a component interface so it can be edited by a manager etc.
All I need is a text ticker that displays an x number of texts like anouncements, discount offerings etc, so not connected to an article etc.

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written by ogosense admin, August 22, 2008

@ Hans, thank you for your comment. Not sure if you have any budget for your project but we could certainly provide you an estimate for anything you may imagine. Just fill out our contact form: http://www.ogosense.com/contact-us/ for a free estimate. It does help to provide detailed project requirements.

Thank you. Ogy

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written by hans, August 25, 2008

Hi Ogy,

I'll come back on you when I find out what the budget is, i.e. if the ticker idea is approved :)

Now about some "wierdness/bugs" I found.
- Ticker doesnt loop in the Opera browser
- When font size is adjusted to bigger at a certain size pixels at the botto of the font get "lost" in IE7

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written by ogosense admin, August 25, 2008

Hi Hans,

related to your comments:

"Now about some "wierdness/bugs" I found.
- Ticker doesnt loop in the Opera browser"

I forwarded this to our Developer Dan but I have not confirmed this issue yet.

"- When font size is adjusted to bigger at a certain size pixels at the botto of the font get "lost" in IE7"

This could be a conflict with your template code. If you do not allow for enough room in your template, then this could happen. I would be curious to take a look at a live version of this. Can you post here a direct link to demo this issue?

Best, Ogy

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written by Daniel, August 26, 2008

Hello Ogy, Hans

I've been checking the issue on Opera. It really IS there, and I have updated the module to fix this issue.

With this fix you can set the amount of "loops" manually. Default value is -1, which seems to stand for "infinite".

Opera does interpret MARQUEE tag (which is used for the scroller), but not perfectly. However, it's working fine now.

Please download the module again, and you'll have the version up and running.

If you don't want to set the module all over again, please e-mail me at dan at ogosense dot com, and I'll send you the code that you should change in the module php file in order to achieve infinite loop.

Best,
Dan

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