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General Category => Joomla Talk => : steeld March 12, 2011, 07:58:54 AM



: Problems with Newsticker
: steeld March 12, 2011, 07:58:54 AM
I have some problems with the newsticker.
First, a couple of bugs:
  • Using Mootools, all the lines are displayed simultaneously on first showing and looks a mess. Switching to S5 Effects solves this but S5 Effects seems to have a big hit on other transitions on the same page so I'd rather stick with Mootools.
  • If I try to leave line 2 blank, the default (as supplied) text keeps reappearing no matter what I do
And a couple of suggestions:
  • It would be good to have a Post-Text as well as a Pre-Text then we could style the text with open/close div and font tags etc.
  • Whilst appreciating that this is meant to be a single line, it would be nice to have a word-wrap option so that it could use as many lines as the Height parameter would permit
Otherwise, it's another great freebie from Shape5. I do like the idea of the text being configured via the module rather than being driven from a category - the use I have for it fits this approach well but others might see different depending on their requirements. Perhaps a further extension could be to choose an article category or pre-defined text and cover both options.
Thanks David


: Re: Problems with Newsticker
: steeld March 12, 2011, 11:02:10 AM
One other thing I have just noticed - the Choose to Hide/Show Arrows doesn't seem to do anything.


: Re: Problems with Newsticker
: johnbouldi March 12, 2011, 04:23:17 PM
uhm,, if this is the case, what should we do to stop this kind of problem?


: Re: Problems with Newsticker
: steeld March 14, 2011, 02:59:43 AM
uhm,, if this is the case, what should we do to stop this kind of problem?
Do as I have just done. Post the problem here so that the authors can determine whether it's an implementation issue or a genuine bug (or bugs) they need to address.


: Re: Problems with Newsticker
: jonahh March 14, 2011, 11:52:51 AM
For mootools all showing the lines at once do you have the mootools upgrade plugin enabled on your site?  Also could you post a URL of all this so I can take a look?


: Re: Problems with Newsticker
: steeld March 16, 2011, 02:19:28 PM
Sorry, I should have said that I'm running 1.5.15