[Javascript] Marquee Scroller

[Rodney Myers]

For certain things I am enthusiastic about Scripting.FileSystemObject

But it is worth noting that :

1) As all ActiveX (without special plug in) it is for IE only
2) IE puts up a warning confirm box that could  strongly dissuade users
from choosing to OK it.
3) It requires (AFAIK) Windows Scripting Host to be enabled in order to
work - and it is WSH that can lay users open to such things as worms in
HTML email.

You make your own judgement on how appropriate it will be for your
marquee.

hth

Rodney

BEKIM BACAJ wrote:

> Here you are, Steve use an activeX object, (if you are working on a
> intranet site-application, I prefer you, convert it into HTA.Use FSO
> (the file system object) that can read, write, create, delete, move,
> append, etc to/from the system folder/file,without prompting the user
> about the ActiveX activity). Here is the JScript function to read an
> external .txt file: function readExtTextFile(){
>     var readIt = 1;
>     fso=new ActiveXObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject");
> gotText=fso.OpenTextFile("TheTextFile.txt", readIt);
>           theContent=gotText.ReadAll(); alert(theContent)//this will
> retrieve the content and make sure it is
> available                      //if you need any further asistance,
> e-mail... }
>  Regards, Bekim
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Steve Hearne
>      Sent: Friday, June 01, 2001 2:29 PM
>      To: javascript at LaTech.edu
>      Subject: RE: [Javascript] Marquee Scroller
>       Thanks for that. The situation is that i'm doing work on a
>      company intranet based around some portal software and the
>      page this scroller is to be placed in unfortunately HAS to
>      be an HTML page or the portal software throws a wobbly!
>      So, ASP is out of the question.  I like your idea of opening
>      a file though; i suppose i could open the fille and read its
>      contents into a variable or array and then scroll that?
>      Hmmmm...can you or someone point me in the direction of some
>      tutorials for this (opening afile and readnig contents into
>      var)! My ASP is better than my JavaScript which...needs
>      working on.
>      Thanks again,
>      Steve
>
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