Daktronics Venus DataStreamer - Manual (Page 46)

40 Creating Messages for a DAKTicker
6.6 Adding a News Frame
Several different categories of up-to-date news headlines can be displayed with Venus
DataStreamer. To add a News frame, complete the following steps:
1. Click the News icon from the left toolbar and the News dialog window will open as
shown in Figure 66. A new frame will be added to the message.
Note: For this version of Venus
DataStreamer software, the Driver field
cannot be changed.
2. Click the down arrow next to the field
Select a Query to choose a category of
news headlines.
3. Click the Data tab as shown in Figure
67. Click the + button to insert the
parameters for the headlines to be
shown. This field may change in
appearance depending on the type of
query selected on the previous screen.
4. Enter the necessary information for
each of the fields created. Depending
on the query selected, this may require
either the entry of a news source or the
selection of choices from a drop-down
list.
5. In the Start column, determine the start
point for the display information in the
list of news headings. The Count
column determines the number of
news headings to be displayed at a
time.
6. Click the Appearance tab to set the
layout of the information on the display
as shown in Figure 68. See preset
examples available for news frames in
Figure 69.
7. Click the down arrow next to the Layout
field to select a layout for the
information on the display. When using
a custom preset, it will be necessary to
click the plus sign + next to the layout field to add rows to be formatted. To remove a
row, click the “X”.
Figure 66: Choosing a News Frame
Figure 67: News Frame Data Tab
Figure 68: News Frame Appearance Tab