What's a news ticker?

The news ticker is basically a locally placed window that scrolls up the latest news headers from the QGL Network. Technically, its just a web page that works through the toolbar system of your Windows-based computer. After you've installed it, you will have a movable, resizable toolbar that scrolls (ticks) through the items, looking something like:



Click on the image to see roughly how it will look on your desktop.

To check out what it looks like, you can preview it as a normal web page.

How do I set it up? That looks k-rad!

Piece of cake! The only prerequisite is that you are using a version of Windows that supports the toolbar system. In order to check this, simply right click on your task bar and see if it says Toolbars. If it does, you're in business. Follow the steps:

• Right click on your task bar
• Move the mouse over Toolbars and click "New Toolbar"
• In the location field down the bottom of the dialog that pops up, simply type in http://www.qgl.org/ticker (an easy way to get it in there is to right click on that link, select "copy shortcut", and then paste it into the input field.
• You're in business! The toolbar should appear and have the content in there. It should start to scroll after 3 seconds or so. The toolbar will automatically refresh itself after one hour, but you can manually refresh it by right clicking in the window and clicking refresh

I want to get this ticker working with news from other sites, or my site!

Go ahead, you can get code from the DHTML gurus over at Dynamic Drive. At the moment, we don't have a general-purpose interface to doing this - you're welcome to use our code as a template, but we won't help you get it going until we have a easy-to-use interface to getting it working.

Cool ticker, but it needs feature x before its really awesome!

We'll be working to make this a really useful tool for QGL viewers - as usual, any suggestions on improvements are welcome - mail them through to us at qgl@qgl.org.