Chef RSS/News Ticker with Tooltip Description

The Chef RSS/News Ticker with tooltip description is a must to have solution to display latest titles or RSS news on your website. This ticker can be used as a teaser on the main page of the website. The feature that makes this ticker stand is the description tool tip when visitor is over a title in the ticker.

The ticker customizing options are located in the settings.xml file. First setting is the option to set from where the ticker it would take the data. To activate the use of the remote feed url just change the useRemoteFeed='no' to "YES". By default is set to "no" which means that the ticker is using the local file.

The info can be imported from a local file (localFeedUrl='news.xml' in our sample) or it can be an RSS feed (remoteFeedUrl='www.maniactourist.com/feed' in our sample).  Please do not include the http since this is compensate by the parser.

The local xml file has to have a normal RSS structure. The widget would display's a title with an URL to the article, and in the tool tip the image and description. The image can be imported from description if is used a regular expression (img src). You can add all the item like in the following sample or just title and link.

For the remote feed RSS the package it includes a small php parser.

Scrolling speed and animation time can be set in the xml file.

The width, height and background colour of the ticker can be set in the xml file. The background colour of ticker can be set in the XML. In the same file you have the option to show/hide background shadow (yes/no) and set the colour of the shadow. The tickerMarginTop='138' option would set the space between the ticker and the top size. In this space would fit the tool tip description. Graphics and fonts can be changed inside the library of the main fla.

The next group of settings are related to the display of the title in the ticker. The background corner radius, the round sign in front of each title radius and shadow colour can be change in the XML file. In the same group of settings we added options to set the space for news, left padding and top margin of the title. This next setting is important for the URL of the news. By default is set to _blank.

The next group of settings is dedicated to set the tool tip description. Tooltip width, height, corner radiu, background colour, background alpha and shadow colour can be customized from the XML file. Set the thumb width, height, border width and colour from the xml settings.

One of the most important options is the description chars limitation (descCharLimitation). By default is set to 220 characters.

From the XML file the tooltp date and description colour can be edited.

The next group of settings are created to customize the parser for your RSS structure. The parent node name, parent node name, title node, date and and description node can be edited to fit most of the RSS feeds structure.

The news has 2 options. One in normal and another in over state where it can be set the background and font colour. The radius of the over state can be set in xml. By default is set to 20.