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Exercise 4 – Adding a ticker
There is one area remaining on the screen and that is the ticker area. Basically there are two ways of
generating the ticker content. One way is simply to write your own text to be put into the ticker. This is
fairly simple. Click into the “Ticker” tab of the media player and simply add a text of your choice into the
“Text” box. Then tick the “Write ticker text” box and click “Save”.
The ticker text will appear within minutes and stay until you make changes. By using the “Allow ticker”
yes or no property on the media spots you can control (and schedule) its appearance.
Figure 172. The simplest way of adding a ticker is to write your on manual text into the “Ticker“ tab.
Getting tickers from RSS feeds
A popular way of getting ticker content is to use RSS feeds. RSS feeds are widely available on the
Internet and cover most areas of interest when it comes to dynamically updated content.
Start by searching for suitable RSS feeds using Google. Just enter RSS and a name of a newspaper, a
broadcaster or any other organization and you will soon get to the right pages to find RSS feeds.
Figure 173. Print “RSS” plus some associated broadcaster or area of interest into Google and make a
search.
