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Crawling Text



Hi All, I first want to say that I am super happy with the recent updates and progress that continues to develop on the Brightsign software and units. I have one area that I feel I need to address, and that is the crawling text. Previously, I posted an inquiry, only to comment that it had already been addressed. However, the answer was that it was not a top priority. I am sure there are many in the same situation I am in and crawling text across the bottom is a priority. Just yesterday another customer asked me if we can have text scrolling across the bottom. I showed him the two options we have and he said, no, that doesn't look very nice and I was looking for something like the cable news networks have. This comes up so frequently, that I felt the need to bring it up again. Now, this is starting to cost me sales and to me, that is a priority. I took a look at several comparable competitors and they ALL had crawling text as a option. Is there a threshold that needs to be reached, on the number of people suggesting a fix on something, for it to become a priority? Thank you.

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    RokuLyndon


    It's not that we didn't look into this feature, but crawling text performed poorly when we did initial investigation, and we couldn't get it to work well on the BrightSign. Unfortunately, this is a limitation of the current product, and it's unlikely that crawling text will be a working feature on the current BrightSign platform.

    I will forward your post to our program manager to get clarification, but my understanding is we did not have an acceptable solution to this problem.
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    bushinc


    Did you get any feedback on this from your program manager?
    I've been asked for smooth scrolling text on a BrightSign HD1010.
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    Christian Blunschi

    Hi,

    Is this still the case, or do the current BrightSign units  (i.e HD1010)  support crawling text now?

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    Dan Phelps

    I am also interested in other text displaying alternatives. I currently have 3 lines of text being displayed from an RSS feed and the customer would like to see each line display in sequence. Currently all three lines are filled simultaneously and then stay up for the alotted time.

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    Alex

    BrightAuthor allows to output text on the unit in 2 variants: static or animated type. There isn't a marquee option where text scrolls, not on the HD players. With the XD players, you can do a marquee using html5 since html5 supports scrolling text. Use html5 for alternative methods of text displaying.

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    Melvin Nunez

    Hi Amigos

    There are a solution for scrolling text in RSS zone?

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    Romeo

    Hi,

    Please download and publish the below presentation and plugin with at least BA 4.1.0.5 (Presentation instructions are on screen too)

    http://brightsignnetwork.com/download/Romeo/BA_4_1_0_5_Adjust_Ticker_Scrolling_speed.zip 

     

    Romeo

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