myNewsTicker

An easy to manage, xml-based news ticker for your sites.

Features:

• pause time
• maximum character to prevent loooong headlines to ruin your layout ;p
• set headlines to uppercase or lowercase
• and of course unlimited entry of news

AATW (added along the way):

• next/prev btn to skip tru the ticker
  (recently updated, included in the fla) – aug15, 2007
• pause when rolled over
  (pls refer comments below for instructions to modify) – sept18, 2007

How to add special characters:

create a new layer on the main timeline, add this script(press F9 to get the action panel):

System.useCodepage = true;

next look in the library, open up the file name “Tween 1”, select all 3 text box, look at the properties panel, click embed/character embedding. You will see uppercase, lowercase, numerics & punctuations already selected, now, just include any other character set of your choice by holding cmd+click. That’s it, now republish the swf.

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