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Usage
The Ticker Window | Tooltypes
| Skins and Plugins |Bugs
The Ticker Window
Click on an area for a description.
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Eject
forces the program to check the server for updates. |
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Pause/Play stops and restarts the scroller. It is safe to pause
and unpause the scroller at ANY time (even while doing a server
check). |
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Fast
skips to the next news message. |
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Sets
frequency of server updates in minutes. 0 is never. |
| Headline |
The
headlines. |
| Status |
Displays
the program status. |
Notes
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You can't quit the program during a server check. This is a feature,
not a bug.
- Clicking
on an entry in the scroller will bring up the story related to
that headline in your web browser via OpenURL (requires version
OpenURL 2+). Note that the URL itself is not actually displayed
for the headlines, and the scroller will always show the story
related to the entry under the mouse pointer.
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Keep an eye on the status line under the scroller, this'll give
you some idea of what the program is up to.
- The
window position is remembered when you quit the program
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Tooltypes
The
following can be used as tooltypes or command line arguments.
| SKIN/K |
Name
of the skin to display.
EG: SKIN=AmazingGraphic.iff
Default:
base.iff |
| PARSELIBRARY/K |
Name
of the parser library to use. If the library is not in the same
directory as the program or in LIBS: then this must include
a path. THIS IS CASE SENSITIVE!!!
EG: PARSELIBRARY=Parsers/acnews.library
Default: Parsers/acheadline.library |
| DELAY/N |
Auto-check
time delay in minutes
EG: DELAY=20
Default: 5 |
| SLOWMODE/S |
If
set then the scroller runs at half speed. Slightly smoother
and better for the hard of reading..
Default: Off |
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Skins
and Plugins
Skins
available in our skin archive can be installed by simply coping
the image file to the skins directory and selecting it in the tooltypes/cli.
If you would like to create a skin then please get the skin devpac
from the download page.
We
are hoping to make avaliable seperate plugins for other news, the
latest information will be on this site.
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Bugs
To
our knowledge no bugs exist in the ticker but should you happen
to find one then please mail us with details of:
- The
Problem
- Your
Machine Specifications
- Your
OS version
- How
the problem came about
The
address for bug reports is chris@worldfoundry.com. Please use
the subject line "Ticker Bug Report".
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