66.4.8 Crawling Ticker

To start inserting a Crawler, follow the below steps:

1. Select ETX CG Editor
2. To input Crawling Ticker, go to ItemListForm.

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3. Select 'Crawling Ticker' to add a file and drag and drop it to the Preview window.
4. Select 'Crawling Ticker' and drag and drop it into the Preview space to create a trailing message that moves horizontally.
5. You may edit the fields of the 'Ticker Properties' toolbar to customize the parameters.

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How to add images with content for crawling ticker

• Copy the image folder and text (.txt) file in 1 folder (locally)
• Add ticker from ETX CG prop
• Select .txt file
• You can save and load the config
• Preview

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To start using the Tickers and Crawler Layers and tools, perform the following straightforward steps

• Common Properties

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• Effects

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• Actions

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•  Group

  The group button allows you to group more than one item type as one selection. Item type can be text, graphic, image, flash, image sequence or tickers. Grouping of items allows you to modify them with a single action.

  To group items, select "Group" on the Actions taskbar. Next, click and drag your mouse cursor to create a selection box over the items.

  The first time you group a set of items, you will be able to make modifications to the selected list, but the items will still be displayed separately under the Properties toolbar; see below:

  To merge the selected items as a group, select the "Group" button again.
  

  group_btn

  Once the selected items are grouped, they are displayed as a single item under the Properties toolbar. You can modify the group by selecting the required group under the Properties toolbar.
  

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• Ungroup

  The ungroup button allows you to separate items inside a merged group. Ungrouping of items will enable you to modify the items individually.

  To ungroup items, select "Ungroup" on the Actions taskbar, click and drag your mouse cursor to create a selection box over the group.

  ungroup_btn

  Once the items are ungrouped, you can modify them individually under the Properties toolbar.

  ungrouped_layers

• Layer Up

  The layer-up button allows you to move items up to the next Layer when there are more than two layers.
  Select Layer Up on the Actions taskbar to execute the Layer Up feature on an item. Next, click and drag the mouse cursor to create a selection box over the item. Select Layer Up to move a selected item on top of the following Layer. Continue this step if you would like to move another layer up. The diagram below shows the Layer effect on the text item.

  layer_up_btn

• Layer Down

  The layer-down button allows you to move items down to the next Layer when there are more than two layers. Select Layer Down on the Actions taskbar to apply the Layer Down feature on an item. Next, click and drag the mouse cursor to create a selection box over the item. Select Layer Down to move a selected item on top of the following Layer. Continue this step if you would like to move another layer down. The diagram below shows the layer-down effect on the text item.

  layer_down_btn

• Bring to Front

  Bring To Front button allows you to move items to the topmost Layer. The difference between this feature and the Layer Up feature is that this feature only allows you to move items to the top Layer and not to the next available Layer.  

  To execute the Bring To Front feature on an item, select Bring To Front on the Actions taskbar. Next, click and drag the mouse cursor to create a selection box over the item. Select Bring To Front to move the selected item to the topmost Layer. The diagram below shows the Bring To Front effect on the text item.

  bring2front_btn

• Send To Back

  The Send To Back button lets you move items to the bottom Layer. The difference between this feature and the Layer Down feature is that this feature only allows you to move items to the bottom Layer and not to the next available Layer.  

  To execute Send To Back feature on an item, select Send To Back on the Actions taskbar. Next, click and drag your mouse cursor to create a selection box over the item. Select Send To Back to move the selected item to the bottom-most Layer. The diagram below shows the Send To Back effect on the text item.

  send2back_btn

• Align Lefts

  The align Lefts button allows you to adjust the alignment of selected item(s) to the left of the frame. The diagram below shows the Align left effect on the text and graphic items.

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• Align Centers

  The Align Centers button allows you to adjust the alignment of selected item(s) to the Center of the frame. The diagram below shows the Align Centers effect on the text and graphic items.

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• Align Rights
  

  Align Rights button allows you to adjust the alignment of selected item(s) to the Right of the frame. The diagram below shows the Align Rights effect on the text and graphic items.

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  Alternatively, Text selection can also be modified using the XML Description, and click the <Apply> button to import changes.

  Edit XML Description and select 'Apply' to apply changes.

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WARNING: If you want the ticker content to appear exactly when you enter the ticker text (UPPERCASE/lowercase), you might delete the "style=’uppercase'" statement in the XML file.

How to create multiple crawl tickers

To create a ticker with text content from a file, you need

1. create the file with content using Notepad and save it in .txt format,

   ticker_file

2. If there are image files, save the text file and the image files in a single folder.

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3. Create a crawl from ETX CG Props, and add a ticker by selecting the text file you created.

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4. Additional tickers can be added with different text files in ETX CG Props.
5. If you want to save this preset and recall each ticker, double-click 'show' in every ticker show tab and leave it blank:

   cg_props_ticker_layer_show

6. To save, select 'Save Config' and give the file a name.

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7. To load, select 'Load Config' and load the preset you created.
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9. The preview will have no tickers because the preset is set to disable the ticker.

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10. Double-click 'Show' under the show tab to enable the ticker:

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