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07-21-2008, 11:31 franc14529 Joined on 12-27-2007 Posts 18 ticker chat ,how to control the appearing of messages Dear all , hi ,i need an urgent help. i have a ticker chat in my scene and i need to control the order of appearing of these messages in the ticker. for example the ticker contains  mess1,mess2,mess3,mess4,mess5.........in the ticker. i want to put a new message mess_direct before mess1in the buffer of the ticker so that it appears the first in the list. in fact what i am doing is that mess1,.....mess5 are repeated continuously ,but what i want that when a new message (mess_direct)arrive  so that it will appear the first without waiting his turn to appear. mess1,........,mess5 are less important than mess_direct.i want that mess_direct appears directly of course without resetting the ticker. Best Regards Francois    Report

07-22-2008, 8:13 Ralf Stanke Joined on 05-15-2005 Dubai, U.A.E. Posts 296 Re: ticker chat ,how to control the appearing of messages Hi Francois, currently there's no way to 'insert' message before already queued ones. a few possibily solutions: 1) keep the data threshold as low as possible, so that new data appear as soon as possible 2) insert blank dummy message items between all 'normal' messages and control their content directly, this is a bit hard because you won't know which 'dummy' item is available and has to be addressed, because the ticker is picking the available item randomly. 3) create a second 'immediate' ticker and you fade from the normal to the 'high prio' one, using the eventy fired from the ticker node and/or item (FirstIn, LastOut, ...) Ralf    Report

07-22-2008, 13:53 franc14529 Joined on 12-27-2007 Posts 18 Re: ticker chat ,how to control the appearing of messages well i have tried the first solution. in fact i was not using the on underrun event to trigger the retrieval of data,i was using a timer that retreive data and give them to the ticker to show them on screen. but now i have returned to using the on underrun event with the same structure as before with the timer. now it is showing the message good with no delay,but there is a problem which is the ticker suddenly cut off(no messages on the screen) and after 5 minutes it returned showing messages.   this ticker was showing messages normally without cuttoff with the timer method i used before   best Regards francois    Report

07-22-2008, 18:07 Ralf Stanke Joined on 05-15-2005 Dubai, U.A.E. Posts 296 Re: ticker chat ,how to control the appearing of messages Hi Francois, if the ticker runs empty no further underrun event are thrown. The Empty flag is raised instead. This signals that there's no more data waiting the the queue and the "application" should hat that situation. One trick is to connect this flag to the Enabled property of an Event Node which is triggered priodically by a mover. As soon the ticker runs empty it enables the events node which then fires "special empty underrun events". You logic can now handle this event to do the same as it does for the normal underrun. Ralf    Report