Thanks seaside!
Achieving compability between different Puppies is more complex than I thought...
It's some kind of Sisyphean labor.
So if javascript has nothing to do with <marquee> there's still a chance to find working one.
More scroller versions = More fun
@Lobster:
It's odd...
I downloaded the latest Saluki (whoa, great progress since 006, by the way), and ON/OFF works, but has no transparency.
(might be because I launched it in VBox..?)
I tried Slacko either, everything's ok...
Greetings!
ticker tape PNN - Puppy News Network
Lobster, I encountered the failure of On/Off feature, at last.
It was because I tried to turn off the scroller too soon, before the message was loaded.
The line which exports PID was placed AFTER that. Now it's fixed.
Hope it was the same in your case, not something worse...
BTW, sometimes it takes two times to run the scroller, especially when it's turned off via ctrl+c instead of mouse-click.
Assuming everyone has it's own settings of panel(s) (top/bottom/vertical/horizontal) and different background colors,
I've added few easy-editable parameters in front of the script, to make it more friendly/customizable.
EDIT: I overlooked one more reference to sh in this line:
Code corrected now.
Greetings!
It was because I tried to turn off the scroller too soon, before the message was loaded.
The line which exports PID was placed AFTER that. Now it's fixed.
Hope it was the same in your case, not something worse...
BTW, sometimes it takes two times to run the scroller, especially when it's turned off via ctrl+c instead of mouse-click.
Assuming everyone has it's own settings of panel(s) (top/bottom/vertical/horizontal) and different background colors,
I've added few easy-editable parameters in front of the script, to make it more friendly/customizable.
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#!/bin/bash
# Scroller for "News Network"
# Requirements: Bash + urxvt + wget
TRANS="-" # Transparency On (-) or Off (+)
FORECOL=Blue # Foreground color (also: 0-15)
BACKCOL=White # Background color (also: 0-15)
LENGHT=20 # Scroller lenght (in characters)
POSITIONX=0 # Scroller X position (in pixels)
POSITIONY=0 # Scroller Y position (in pixels)
#==============================================================================
PRECODELENGHT=37 # This parameter is the number of lines from the very beginning to the "START" comment
# It MUST be very accurate to make the script working!!!
# Checking if there's temporary scroll state file - create one if not
if [ ! -f /tmp/scroller_state ]; then
echo -n "OFF" > /tmp/scroller_state
fi
# checking if the script is working now: if yes - kill, if not - launch
ONOFFTEST=$(cat /tmp/scroller_state)
if [ "$ONOFFTEST" == "ON" ]; then
kill $(cat /tmp/scroller_pid) # kills scroller process
echo -n "OFF" > /tmp/scroller_state
rm -f /tmp/scroller_pid
exit
else
echo -n "ON" > /tmp/scroller_state
fi
tail -n +$PRECODELENGHT $0 > /tmp/scroller_temp.txt
exec urxvt -fg "$FORECOL" -bg "$BACKCOL" "$TRANS"tr -bl +sb -g "$LENGHT"x1+"$POSITIONX"+"$POSITIONY" -fn 'xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-18:dpi=76' -e bash /tmp/scroller_temp.txt
# START
# Here the main scroller's code starts
echo -n $$ > /tmp/scroller_pid # Export PID into temp file
WINLEN=$(tput cols) # Get current number of columns
echo -ne "\033[?25l" # Disable cursor
# Get the message and add spaces in front of it
function getmessage () {
echo -n "UPDATING..."
MESSAGE=$(wget -q -O - "http://tmxxine.com/test2/t.txt")
for i in `seq 0 $WINLEN`; do
MESSAGE=" "$MESSAGE
done
LEN=${#MESSAGE}
POS=0
}
getmessage
# Main loop
while true; do
TEXT=${MESSAGE:$POS:$WINLEN}
POS=$(($POS+1))
if [ "$POS" == "$LEN" ]; then POS=0; fi
echo
echo -n "$TEXT"
# update check (every full hour)
TEMP1=`date +%M` # get current minute
TEMP2=`date +%S` # get current second
if [ "$TEMP1" -eq 0 ] && [ "$TEMP2" -eq 0 ]; then
getmessage
fi
sleep 0.2
done
# The End
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exec urxvt -fg "$FORECOL" -bg "$BACKCOL" "$TRANS"tr -bl +sb -g "$LENGHT"x1+"$POSITIONX"+"$POSITIONY" -fn 'xft:DejaVu Sans Mono-18:dpi=76' -e sh /tmp/scroller_temp.txt
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Would anyone be interested in having this in their tray, or is there too much text to fit?
If so, I did a generic tray icon program that will work:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76431
If so, I did a generic tray icon program that will work:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76431
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].