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2009 Loop News Widget
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Posted on 2010 Jan 05 |
Hi. Does this support reading RSS from external sources ?
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Posted on 2010 Jan 05 |
To TrickyT1469: No. The Loop News Flash requires some customization to be able to run RSS Feeds.






















The widget contains a title that contains a settable URL to the main article, news list with a brief text paragraph, date, day, time, and optionally an image.
<item href='http://www.flashreseller.com' target='_blank'>
<title>Animal activists decry expanded elephant displays</title>
<date>Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:54 AM</date>
<thumb>images/elefant.jpg</thumb>
<text><![CDATA[Seven lumbering elephants four of them newcomers are the star attractions in the San Diego Zoo s biggest, most costly expansion in its 90-plus years.]]></text>
</item>
News text can be html formatted.
Auto Loop Scroll can be activated and the loop speed can be setup from the XML file. Animation time, width, height and colours of the news widget can be set in the xml file. Graphics and fonts can be changed inside the library of the main fla.
autoLoopScroll='yes'
autoLoopScrollSpeed = '2'
animationTime='2'
widgetWidth='450'
widgetHeight='300'
widgetPadding='10'
<mouseOutState titleColor='#ffffff' dateColor='#666666' descriptionColor='#999999' newsBgColor='#1d1d1d' thumbBorderColor='#cccccc' />
<mouseOverState titleColor='#ffffff' dateColor='#666666' descriptionColor='#000000' newsBgColor='#8FC400' thumbBorderColor='#cccccc' />
The images can have any size and aspect ratio, and this can be edited in the xml file.
thumbWidth='60'
thumbHeight='60'
thumbBorderWidth='2'
lineHeight='1'
lineColor='#252525'