Although the BLINK and MARQUEE tags are generally deprecated (and annoying), this 2.x example demonstrates how to update text dynamically by blinking, scrolling or alternating it. It uses a custom field (assumes i:General:NewtonScript preference is set to Compile) and one of three custom attributes:

BLINK

number of milliseconds between highlighting/unhighlighting the field

MARQUEE

number of milliseconds between scrolling text left by 1 character; when empty, starts over

ALT

number of milliseconds between replacing field by next item (comma separated entries in original VALUE)

This document (in all its formats) is © 2001-2007. Steve Weyer. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. You are free to use this in your own documents, but I would appreciate an acknowledgement of Newt's Cape and the example.

Last updated: Dec 2000