dynamically populated newsticker

[schiemer]

How can I implement a newsticker (or at least a text box) which is automatically populated with content from another url?

TIA
Markus

[blanius]

Originally posted by schiemer
How can I implement a newsticker (or at least a text box) which is automatically populated with content from another url?

TIA
Markus

Depends alot on the type of content and how it is retrieved. Be a little more specific and I might be able to help.

If you have control you can use GET and POST. If Text you might be able to wrangle it out from that as well. Otherwise might require server side scripting and GET/POST variables.

[schiemer]

What I'd like to do (or to have :-):

A) An element populated dynamically with information
This element should load its information from another URL. Until now (I'm new to 3DFA) I only managed this for plain text with an edit box.
But I'd like this "element" to look like a normal HTML frame or div tag (e.g. containing formatted text, hyperlinks and - if possible - graphics).

The reason for that is to enable others to edit or change the content of a flash web site without the authoring software.

A) Newsticker
As a next step this element should be made scrollable (bottom to top).

Any ideas are very welcome!

Markus

[blanius]

Originally posted by schiemer
What I'd like to do (or to have :-):

A) An element populated dynamically with information
This element should load its information from another URL. Until now (I'm new to 3DFA) I only managed this for plain text with an edit box.
But I'd like this "element" to look like a normal HTML frame or div tag (e.g. containing formatted text, hyperlinks and - if possible - graphics).

This one is unlikely.

A) Newsticker
As a next step this element should be made scrollable (bottom to top).

Any ideas are very welcome!

Markus

Again this can be done but you'll have to be more specific about where and how this data is stored. The easiest thing is to use javascript to send data to the flash, that way you can pass the data to the page via variables or javascript, or you can have the flash access a database or textfile using load variables. There is an example of this kind of thing on my 3dfa site at http://deadyeti.com/blanius. Look at the dynamic menu example and the guestbook and the javascript examples.

http://deadyeti.com/blanius/dynamic.html
http://deadyeti.com/blanius/mymenu.html
http://bretlanius.com/gb/3dfaguest.html