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Anneli

scrolling Msg not displaying
April 25, 2007 07:44AM

Registered: 17 years ago
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Dear TvD,

I have tested my work over and over, but have a problem as soon as I upload to the FTP Server, my scrolling- and status bar messages does not display, what am i doing wrong?
This is my example for a scrolling message that i used, please help!

//Scroll message in status barr

var msg = "bla bla bla... "
function showMsg()
{
window.status = msg
msg = msg.substring(1, msg.length) + msg.substring(0, 1)
scrollmsgID = setTimeout("showMsg()", 150)
}

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TvD

Re: scrolling Msg not displaying
April 25, 2007 09:30PM

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Registered: 18 years ago
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This works for me - did you remember to add the onLoad in the body:

<html>
<head>
<title>*** Your Title Here ***</title>

<script>
//Scroll message in status barr

var msg = "bla bla bla... "
function showMsg()
{
window.status = msg
msg = msg.substring(1, msg.length) + msg.substring(0, 1)
scrollmsgID = setTimeout("showMsg()", 150)
}

</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="showMsg()">

yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
</body>
</html>

Else see the post in the 2006 forums: http://osprey.unisa.ac.za/phorum/read.php?10,41216

If you still cannot get it going post here again, but upload the html file with the javascript to your folder on osprey (let me know what is your surname) and I will look at your code over the weekend

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TvD

Re: scrolling Msg not displaying
September 19, 2008 07:35AM

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Registered: 18 years ago
Posts: 582
Rating: 0

Download the JavaSCript editor from here:
http://www.c-point.com/javascript_editor.php
this will allow you to debug your code - i.e. step through it line by line

Problems with the scroll message comes up year after year and many solutions have been offered over the years - search for scroll in the Internet and Web Design forums from about 2003 onwards such as
http://osprey.unisa.ac.za/phorum/read.php?193,48670,48718#msg-48718
http://osprey.unisa.ac.za/phorum/read.php?10,41216
http://osprey.unisa.ac.za/phorum/read.php?193,48670,48670#msg-48670