Hello - If you know your way around Flash and/or actionscript, this should be very easy for you. Thanks for looking. I started out making a flash news ticker (which I have attached to this project) for the news site I'm building, but I am not the flash wiz other are. Basically, the file I have does everything that I want except for one thing - the ticker does not display enough text before looping. I don't know enough about Flash to make the modifications to get it to do that. If it turns out that it is better to use actionscript for this, I found a Flash component that could do it. It's located here: On that page, do a search for "Ticker component" It was created by Peter Elst. I don't know enough about actionscripting to use this - that's where you come in.
## Deliverables
The purpose of this project is to create (or modify the existing .fla file I supplied) a horizontal Flash-based news ticker. The dimensions of the file itself will be 519 pixels (wide) by 21 pixels (high). The finished file will include the following elements:
Ticker movement will be from right to left
Movement will be adjustable - faster or slower
Movement will be smooth and in a continuous loop
Text will be pulled from a text file (external from the Flash file) or from a database. (If a DB and/or scripting language is required, PHP and MySQL is strongly preferred as it will be on a Linux/Apache server.)
Ticker will be able to display at least 600 characters before repeating
CSS file will define the style of the text in the ticker
Both ends of the Flash file will have a gradient so the text looks like it's gradually appearing as it first starts scrolling (see existing Flash file for example or contact me for a more detailed explanation)
Once complete, I will need all the files that were generated for this project, especially the .fla file (obviously).
Check out the attached .zip file to see how it currently functions. I have included the .fla file and the .psd background image, as well.
That's for your help. I work for a company that works on several sites and I'd love to begin a relationship with someone that I can send other (larger) project to, in the future.
Please email me with any questions.
## Platform
As mentioned previously, this web site is on a Linux server running Apache. PHP and MySQL is installed. If the Flash file requires a database connection and/or PHP, I will need you to install it.