Tickers

Tickers are objects commonly used for news feeds, sports results, and other real-time information. A ticker is a text element that continuously crawls or scrolls across the screen.

Types of Tickers

There are two main types of tickers:

• Crawl Tickers – Move text horizontally (right to left).

  • Continuous – The text repeats with no gaps between items.
  • Staggered – A new text block enters only after the previous one disappears.

• Scroll Tickers – Move text vertically (top to bottom or vice versa).

  • Up – Moves text from bottom to top.
  • Down – Moves text from top to bottom.
  • Up & Down – Moves text up and down alternately.

Creating a Ticker

1. Go to the Left Sidebar.
2. Click Crawl Ticker or Scroll Ticker.
3. Choose the desired ticker type.
4. The ticker appears on the canvas and can be edited in the Right Sidebar.

Editing a Ticker

1. Select the ticker in the objects tree.
2. Open the Right Sidebar to adjust its properties (direction, speed, fonts, colors, background).

Timing Properties

Ticker Type	Property	Description
Crawl	Crawl Speed	Adjusts the speed of horizontal movement independent of text or ticker size.
Scroll	Duration	Defines how long the scroll effect takes.
Scroll	Delay	Adds a delay before the text starts moving.

• Play/stop control – Each ticker can be controlled separately.

Ticker Content

Tickers can contain multiple text entries that are either:

• fixed (entered manually), or
• dynamic (loaded from a data source, e.g. JSON feed). See Data Source & API Control for details.

Deleting a Ticker

1. Right-click on the ticker in the objects tree.
2. Select Delete from the menu.

TL;DR

• Two ticker types: Crawl (horizontal) and Scroll (vertical).
• Crawl supports continuous and staggered modes. Scroll supports up, down, and up & down.
• Create tickers from the Left Sidebar. Edit properties in the Right Sidebar.
• Ticker content can be fixed (manual) or dynamic (from a data source).
• Select tickers from the object tree, not by clicking on the canvas.