How's this done?

[SirTalksalot]

I've been searching for ages to find an RSS teletype ticker, or even just an RSS ticker that works. The I find this guy has done it exactly how I wanted to do it!

He's really not into sharing his secrets, does anyone know how this can be done?

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/

[optrex]

Looks like a plugin to a portal like vba

[Ascor]

He's really not into sharing his secrets, does anyone know how this can be done?
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/

But he's share the info in the source view
look at source:
http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/sfticker.html
then go here:
http://www.webreference.com/programming/javascript/professional/chap21/2/5.html

hope this helps you :)

[SirTalksalot]

I'd like to say it does help, but as it happens I'm a dumb-ass, and unless it's downloadable with instructions on how to install it, I can't. Don't suppose you could show me what I'm supposed to do with that lot could you?

[Ascor]

sorry i'm similar as you, dumb-ass II lol, perhap's someone can help you more ..

[Black Tiger]

Well, then here's dumb ass nr. 3 and I would like it also.
I do have VBA running, but when using RSS feeds it only works in threads or announcements.
Such a running line of tekst with rss-news would be very nice. I do have now a running line, a hack from here, but it does not show rss-feeds, just text you can type in yourselve.
So if anybody can help us, please do!

[SirTalksalot]

We're still all keen to know how this can be done. :)

[mpage]

I've made a similar thing in java but displays any rss feed as a ticker

see this post (java rss feed ticker), might be what your looking for: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1122198#post1122198

[Black Tiger]

Always nice if somebody also looks at a bit older post and gives an answer to it.
Thanks mpage! I will have a look at it.

Just discovered that your link does not exist anymore and brings me back to the portal.

[KW802]

Black Tiger, try this link (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?p=1122198).

[Black Tiger]

Yep I saw that one, but that's a hack request, no hack/solution... but thanks anyway for the quick reply.
It is however what I was looking for.

[mpage]

ok, ive already made it (it works on my home page) but dont know how well it works on different browsers setups.

Downloading Rss feed on the fly can be quite anoying for users, so I have made it in ajax style, so the downloading is done only once the page is displayed, and its downloaded to the loacal domain. It also checks to see how old the RSS feed is before downloading again (ive set my one to only download once a day... this will only happen once (the 1st user to the forum), reducing bandwith use

Because its java, some old computers will diplay this with a bit of lag, but suits my needs, I'll have to play around with it to make it admin friendly.

Would it be any use to you? Would you mind if I didnt make it as a pluggin, but code that you can add your style manager (I have no exp in making pluggins)

[Black Tiger]

Well it might be indeed. If it's made as code that's not a problem. If it won't work or takes to much template edits I think I will change to my other idea.

The other idea is to put RSS feeds in a thread which is already standard possible, just have to look for a way that they don't show up as new posts when users check for new posts and they don't show as new posts in the vBA statistics on the portal.
Maybe that is an easyer solution.