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Scrolling text in Template Creator (Beta)

We've added scrolling text capabilities to Template Creator , allowing longer messages to be displayed in a compact and continuous format. This allowing for example RSS-feeds too be displayed in a news-ticker style in Templates and layouts, long texts from social media datasources to be scrolled verticaly, and much more. This Is a beta feature and is intended for early use and validation. Core functionality is expected to work as designed, but some cases and hardware may result in unexpected behavior.

One of four behaviours can be selected when adding a text are in a template :

  • Hidden - Existing option
  • Resize text to fit - Existing option
  • Vertical scroll - New option
  • Horizontal scroll- New option
  • The vertical scrolling option loops text smoothly from top to bottom
  • The horizontal scrolling option scrolls text continuously from right to left, similar to a news ticker.
  • Support for dynamic text sources, scrolling each item in sequence before restarting the loop.
  • Automatic normalization of horizontal scrolling text, removing line breaks and displaying content as a single continuous line.
  • Five predefined speed settings for both modes: Very Slow, Slow, Medium (default), Fast, and Very Fast.

The feature is available now in Template Creator, requires no additional configuration beyond selecting the desired overflow behavior, and works across all hardware supported by Smartsign 11.