Very nice... I need to adjust the colors though..
Here's some screen shots:

http://allforums.net/step4.bmp

http://allforums.net/step6.bmp

Here is one using windows xp colors....
http://allforums.net/forum/xp.bmp

If you would like test out this ticker type in "http://www.allforms.net/forum/ticker3.php" as a new toolbar.

I did a modify to this hack, and now it works ALSO with "forumid", which lets you choose if displaying the last 10 posts from ALL board, or from a single forum

if you call it with ticker.php it gives full forum

if you call it with ticker.php?forumid=PUT_FORUM_ID_NUMBER_HERE then it will show latest posts only from that forum....

Check it out ;)

DISCLAIMER: use it at your own risk ( but it works ;) )

NOTE: change the colours, board name, etc... in the code, to suit your needs ;)

Hi Tester2,

I made this change:

Original:

New:

Just change 28 pixels height to 15 pixels height.

Very good hack ;)

Daniel.

When Ticker is OFF, it is also reloaded every X minutes. Is there any way to change this?

Thanks again for this GREAT, GREAT hack.

Daniel.

Great Hack !!
I would like to have also the time in the ticker. I mean the time for every posting. Is this possible ? If yes, what do I have to change ?

I've installed this and it works great. However, it takes up too much room on my taskbar, using almost all of it. I've set the width of the marquee to 300, but it doesnt affect the actual size (it just cuts off part of the table) and I end up with a lot of blank space. I am using Win XP and my resolution is 10274x768.

Can anyone tell me how to make the toolbar smaller?

What I've done is to put the ticker below the items on the task bar so that it can take up the whole stretch of the screen (i'm using a hybrid between ticker2 and ticker3.)

To do this, just grab the movey part of the ticker and pull it down, if you know what I mean?

Very good hack, and very useful for forum users that have some windows knowledge, but a little bit too fiddly for everyone else in my opinion.

Has anyone tried this with vb3? I've tried it on vb3 Beta 7 and it gets a database error, which is kinda expected since the structures differ slightly between vb2 and vb3. But what to change so that it will work with vb3?

You can use something like Pluck RSS Reader (http://www.pluck.com/rssreader.aspx?GCID=C12286x010) or the RSS plugin for Trillian Pro to get similar functionality to this. Simply point your reader to:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...l.php?type=rss

To get a task bar scroller, you only need to decipher the array provided by:
http://www.yourdomain.com/forumpath/...al.php?type=js

how can ii fix this? i am a neebe to all this.....


then on line 39 i have this

please someone help i like this, i will like to use it..... :disappointed:

I get an undefined call to 'getpermissions' on line 39 as well. Noob in same boat. I uploaded it to the root of my forum if that makes any difference. VB 3.0.6

This is a great hack and I'd really love to get it working in VB3 but haven't had any luck yet. I've tried to use Fetch_getPermissions or someting like that in the same way, but I haven't been able to make it work.
Please advise.

I was wondering if anyone has come up with a VB3 compatible version of this most helpful hack?