How to turn the News Block into a News Fader.

[wulbs]

I tried to use the news block in TP but news fader won't work.

Please help....

I am using:
SMF 1.1.9
TP v.1.05

[ZarPrime]

Hi wulbs,

Welcome to the TP Support Site.

The code below in a php block should work fine for every version of TinyPortal up to and including TP 1.0 beta 4.  It may or may not work with the latest SMF and TP (haven't tried it).  This snippet is located somewhere in our Bloc Code Snippets board, probably in a couple of places, so you probably could have found it by doing a search.

ZarPrime

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global $context, $settings, $options, $txt, $scripturl, $modSettings;

// Show the news fader?  (assuming there are things to show...)
if ($settings['show_newsfader'] && !empty($context['fader_news_lines']))
{
echo '
<div style="height: 40px; background: url('.$settings['images_url'].'/machine.jpg) repeat-x;">';

// Prepare all the javascript settings.
echo '
<div id="smfFadeScroller" style="text-align: center; width: 90%; padding: 2px;"><b>', $context['news_lines'][0], '</b></div>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript"><!-- // --><![CDATA[
// The fading delay (in ms.)
var smfFadeDelay = ', empty($settings['newsfader_time']) ? 3000 : $settings['newsfader_time'], ';
// Fade from... what text color? To which background color?
var smfFadeFrom = {"r": 155, "g": 185, "b": 255}, smfFadeTo = {"r": 0, "g": 0, "b": 0};
// Surround each item with... anything special?
var smfFadeBefore = "<b>", smfFadeAfter = "</b>";

var foreColor, backEl, backColor;

if (typeof(document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\').currentStyle) != "undefined")
{
foreColor = document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\').currentStyle.color.match(/#([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])/);
smfFadeFrom = {"r": parseInt(foreColor[1]), "g": parseInt(foreColor[2]), "b": parseInt(foreColor[3])};

backEl = document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\');
while (backEl.currentStyle.backgroundColor == "transparent" && typeof(backEl.parentNode) != "undefined")
backEl = backEl.parentNode;

backColor = backEl.currentStyle.backgroundColor.match(/#([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])([\da-f][\da-f])/);
smfFadeTo = {"r": eval("0x" + backColor[1]), "g": eval("0x" + backColor[2]), "b": eval("0x" + backColor[3])};
}
else if (typeof(window.opera) == "undefined" && typeof(document.defaultView) != "undefined")
{
foreColor = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\'), null).color.match(/rgb\((\d+), (\d+), (\d+)\)/);
smfFadeFrom = {"r": parseInt(foreColor[1]), "g": parseInt(foreColor[2]), "b": parseInt(foreColor[3])};

backEl = document.getElementById(\'smfFadeScroller\');
while (document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(backEl, null).backgroundColor == "transparent" && typeof(backEl.parentNode) != "undefined" && typeof(backEl.parentNode.tagName) != "undefined")
backEl = backEl.parentNode;

backColor = document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(backEl, null).backgroundColor.match(/rgb\((\d+), (\d+), (\d+)\)/);
smfFadeTo = {"r": parseInt(backColor[1]), "g": parseInt(backColor[2]), "b": parseInt(backColor[3])};
}

// List all the lines of the news for display.
var smfFadeContent = new Array(
"', implode('",
"', $context['fader_news_lines']), '"
);
// ]]></script><script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="', $settings['default_theme_url'], '/fader.js"></script></div>';
}


[wulbs]

thanks for the quick reply...I will try this now.

[wulbs]

Hi ZarPrime,

I put the the code that you gave to a php block but I doesn't work.

Can you teach me how to use the code that you gave?

Please help. thanks

[MrCare]

is this code show random news?

[IchBin]

It displays the news the same way that SMF does.