Adding a live RSS News Feed

We will now add the RSS object which will link to a live Reuters News feed. The scrolling RSS text ticker will be created on top of a background image that needs to be loaded first.

Create a picture object by clicking the  icon on the overlay toolbar. Clicking on the object will select it. Right click the object and select ‘Select File’. This will open the Friendly Bank folder. Click on ‘News Ticker Bar.jp’ and click ‘Open’.

 

The image will be loaded into the picture object. Click and drag the object edges to resize it according to the reference image layout.

Create a RSS object by clicking the  icon on the overlay toolbar.

Click on the object and right click on it to change the font and transparency properties so that the text looks like the reference image.

 

 

In the properties grid of the object change the following properties:

1.  Name the object in the ‘(Name)’ field.

2.  Set the Duration field to 120 seconds

3.  Change the ‘Scrolling’ dropdown to ‘Yes’.

4.  Set the ‘Scroll Duration’ to 20 seconds.

5.  Change the ‘Transparent’ field to 100 % - this changes the background to transparent.

6.  Change the ‘Update Interval’ to 120 seconds.

7.  Enter the Reuters RSS feed URL ‘http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/technologyNews?format=xml’

8.  Set the ‘Width’ field to 85 %