How can I specify a short pause before the scroller starts then continous scrolling after that?

Sarah Williams
Computer Geek
Web-2-3
505-995-0375

Hi Sarah,
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How can I specify a short pause before the scroller starts then continous scrolling after that?
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By default, Scroller Genie has a feature to make the scroller pause after every X pixels or after each content layer. When this option is used, the scroller will also pause before starting scrolling.

If you don't want the scroller to pause every X pixels or so, then your only option at this point is to create some 'wrapping' JavaScript yourself to arrange this.

Here's what I would probably do in this case:
<ul><li>initialise the scroller as you would normally do</li><li>create a new JS function in the HEAD section of the page</li><li>cut/paste the Scroller Genie initialisation JS code to that new JS function and make sure it looks like a string value there</li><li>use the JavaScript 'setTimeout()' function to trigger the scroller initialisation after a specified time</li></ul>

In practice, the resulting JS function could look something like this:
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function startScroller() {
var l_sFunction = "dmxFSG1(1,1,2,25,0,1,0,0,'',0,0,0,1)";
setTimeout(l_sFunction, 2000);
}
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And the BODY tag in your page should look something like this:
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&lt;body onload="startScroller();MM_preloadImages('images/0011vscrllup_over.gif','images/0011vscrlldown_over.gif')"&gt;
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Hope this helps.

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Marja Ribbers-de Vroed
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