NewsTicker

by Peter Govaars

This Widget will display news headlines in a scrolling ticker, similar to those seen on buildings in Times Square, NYC.

The ticker is movable, sizable, and capable of displaying multiple news-feeds. Clicking on a headline in a feed takes you directly to the news story selected. Also included is an option to pause the ticker and pop up a brief description when the cursor hovers over a headline.

The ticker supports slow, medium, and fast scroll speeds as well as manual 'scrubbing' by dra More
Current Version: 1.65

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  1. Doc Savage
    November 16, 2007 · version 1.65 Doc Savage
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    By far my favorite widget!
    Is there a way to dump articles after a couple of days? Some headlines get a little stale before they are updated.
    dk

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  2. jonzadra
    November 16, 2007 · version 1.65 jonzadra
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    Hi, this is the best scrolling widget I've seen so far. I have one bug, and two suggestions.
    The bug:
    The "show gaps" option has no effect. Whether it's enabled or disable, gaps still appear between stories.

    The suggestions:
    1) Instead of having only one line where you input all feeds, have multiple lines, one for each feed or some other method. That single line can get very messy when you have 5 or more urls in it.
    2) Allow the width to be specified by user entry of exact More

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  3. J
    November 16, 2007 · version 1.65 J
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    this has been my favorite ticker for awhile, but i just updated to that widget engine for, and this one doesn't seem to like it much - to the point where it grabs all processing power.

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  4. StockGuy
    September 17, 2006 · version 1.65 StockGuy
    It would be amazing if you could design a widget with these exact features, but one that could track stock prices simply by entering their symbol. There is one available here in the Yahoo widget gallery by Peter Brill, but the graphics are very choppy. You obviously know how to do this to perfection. Again, it would be much appreciated...!!

  5. Kaulfurst
    September 16, 2006 · version 1.65 Kaulfurst
    Not sure if you are thinking of updating the widget, but if you do, could you please make it so it can run on multiple monitors, all the way accross both?
    I can run it on the primary, or the secondary, but if it is running right to left from the secondary to the primary, it stops just a little into the primary. If I run it on the primary, then it does not wrap to the secondary.
    As I have said before, this is a widget I have come to rely on, so I am looking for just a little more functionallity. functionality. Keep up the good work - I hope.

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