This widget creates tickers with text elements that scroll or fade horizontally. This widget enables you to display any length of text continuously, with options to customize ticker direction and spacing. This ticker is optimized for HTML5 accelerated devices, utilizing the accelerated HTML rendering layer of a device for smoother ticker animations. A HTML5 Text …
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The Flash Container widget allows developers to embed Flash SWF files into Appspace advanced channels with extended scripting abilities. You can create custom functions by passing variables between the Flash Container and the advanced channel for custom interaction and data communication. The diagram below illustrates the communication between an Appspace advanced channel and the custom …
The Weather widget allows users to add live weather information to an advanced channel. With the Weather widget, you can display single or multiple day forecasts, with options to find locations by city, state, country, or ZIP code. Currently there are two Weather information providers: Weather Decision Technology (WDT) – only for the North American …
This widget is used to display static plain text in Advanced Channel. Depending on its location in the advanced channel layout, a Plain Text widget is commonly used as: Titles and headers preceding another widget. Descriptions for elements such as photos and graphical content. Labels for specific content in the layout. This article provides the …
The Media Container widget allows designers to group content into a collection and display based on formatting properties. The widget is commonly used to create and manage multi-level menus containing a combination of textual or graphic content for interactive advanced channels. This widget provides support for advanced scripting, thus making this widget perfect for interactive …
The Media Zone widget is the most common widget used to build advanced channels. From interface elements to content playlists, the Media Zone widget is highly flexible and can be layered to form rich media interfaces. The Media Widget is usually used for the following: Backgrounds and screensaver content loops Interface elements such as logos, …
This widget allows users to utilize an external device (e.g. DMP4310 remote control) to control event actions remotely in Advanced Channels. Action scripts are used to map a remote control key press to an Appspace event action. A Remote Control widget is commonly used for: Controlling a playlist of media items. Navigating content via remote …
Appspace provides the ability to create scheduling information at various levels. These levels may increase in complexity such as: scheduling a single piece of content, followed by the scheduling of a playlist of content in a media zone widget, and finally scheduling layouts in advanced channel. Appspace provides flexible scheduling features such as date ranges, …
This article provides the instructions to add, edit, and manage your widgets within the Advanced Channel. Adding Widgets To add widgets, please follow the instructions below: Click Channels in the navigation bar. Select the desired advanced channel from the Channels tab, and click the Edit tab. Select the layout, and click the Visual Editor button. In the Visual Editor, click the ADD WIDGET button In …
This widget displays live information from public or custom RSS feeds in a playlist of feed items. All RSS components such as headlines, media, and body content can be displayed in various layouts with extensive formatting options. This widget differs from the RSS Ticker widget in that it sequentially displays individual text content from the …