Scrolling Text within Display Text (Fake News Ticker)

ellfire

Does anyone out there know of a way to create a scrolling text box with preset sayings?

Ex. I would to create a funny "news ticker" during a level of my game. It would be an actor with a display text attribute that would simply scroll the text in a constant loop with no interaction from users. I was thinking maybe table might come into play with it?

Any ideas are always appreciated.

EatingMyHat

you can use a table to store the text and a scrolling actor with Display Text to present the news (using move or velocity).

Once the actor is out of the screen, change the text randomly to something else from the table. You might want to have two instances of this actor to make sure that you have a nice scroll and always have a message on the screen.

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tatiang

Here's a demo: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19602014/ScrollingText.zip

Rob2

Some more ideas here http://forums.gamesalad.com/discussion/39249/typewriter-effect

ellfire

Thanks to all. @tatiang - That is the exact effect I was looking for! Thanks for posting it here.

tatiang

You're welcome! I've had so much help from others here that I always try to give back.