Ticker help!

[MRS_SCHUTTE]

Im trying to post my Ticker for the boards here and I have the BBCode. Im trying to put it in and then I hit preview and it will not show up. Help!

[RedRox]

What site are you using? It may be too tall or if you have other text, you may have exceeded the text length allowed. why don't you post it in the body of your reply here and see what it looks like and I can probably get an idea of where you are going wrong as well.

[jojaizavra]

Instead of preview hit submit

[signora]

I went to ticker central and everything is fine except in my signature the web site shows up. when i click it the ticker is there. how do i get it in the signature part?

[RedRox]

That's because all you put into your signature is the URL to the ticker image itself. The board software doesn't know what to do with it other than it can identify it as a link and make it clickable. You need the full code suitable for a phpBB bulletin board that not only includes the URL but the surrounding code that tells the system to display the image and make it clickable back to the tickercentral site if you click on the image. The full code should look something like this:

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[url=http://www.tickercentral.com][img]http://www.tickercentral.com/view/ajic/1.png[/img][/url]

which should produce this:



Note however that unless the limitations on ticker height was relaxed by the board owner, that image may be too tall to be displayed and you might see text in red that it exceeds the 60 pixel height limitation. If that is the case you will need to find a different site with thinner images/rulers. There is a topic in this technical issues area of one site I found that has ruler images thin enough to still work with the new image height limitations.

[xdunlapx]

I'm trying to add my ticker from tickercentral.com and it keeps telling me my image can only be 60 pixels high. I know it's not that big... I have followed the directiosn to a T and turned on the specific settings in my control panel and disabled "disable bbcode" in the signature area. Yet it still wont accept my ticker. This was the second ticker i made since the other ticker wasn't working either. GRR Why won't it work???

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[url=http://www.tickercentral.com][img]http://www.tickercentral.com/view/amco/1.png[/img][/url]

[RedRox]

I think you should have bbcode enabled, not disabled.

IME, pretty much all tickercentral tickers are too tall for this site's limitations. the code looks good though as it produces the ticker fine within the body of the message where there is no 60 pixel limitation.



FWIW, I went to "view image info" option (might be view properties in different browsers) after right clicking on your image and it says it is 70 pixels high, so it does in fact exceed the 60 pixel limit.

[xdunlapx]

I tried everything I could think of to make this ticker work. I gave up and am just putting my info in my signature and updating it every so often. *sigh* Doesn't work with either of my tickers, from different sites. So I don't know how other people got their ticker to work in their signature but I just can't find a way to make it work.