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Replace diamond symbol on scrolling ticker

Mark

May 24, 2017 01:27

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Hi all,

I have a basic scrolling ticker along the bottom of a layout which is displaying messages from a simple .txt file.  

Does anyone know if there is a way to replace the diamond symbol ♦ which appears between each line of text ?

Thanks !

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  Mark van den Berg May 24, 2017 08:11

  https://github.com/brightsign/BrightAuthor-Plugins/tree/master/Change-Ticker-Separator

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  Bright Scripters May 24, 2017 12:43

  This might help any of you bright scripters out there

  http://docs.brightsign.biz/display/DOC/roTextWidget#roTextWidget-SetSeparator(separatorAsString)AsBoolean

   

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  Mark May 25, 2017 21:39

  Great, thanks very much.   I guess it's not likely that we could replace the diamond/circle/square with a logo or .gif at all ?

   

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  Robert White August 11, 2017 19:20

  Is it possible to just remove the ticker separator (the diamond) and just replace it with some spaces? without a lot of custom work?

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  Bright Scripters August 11, 2017 20:07

  What I can think of is a feed parser, that would replace multiple feed items, with a single item, by concatenating all items' string into a single one.
  The separation symbol would still show, but not as frequent.
  If the combined string ends up being short, it could be duplicated say 10 times, so the viewer is less likely to see the symbol.
  I wonder if a back space character at the beginning of the string would cause the diamond to be overwritten... :) probably not.

  Here is a thought: does anyone read tickers at all?...