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Wayve  
#1 Posted : Sunday, April 28, 2019 1:35:05 AM(UTC)
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Lebanon

Hi + Thx for the valuable efforts put into GT tool.

I am trying to setup a GT Ticker with Arabic Text (characters direction is Right-to-Left) and scrolling (direction) set to Right.

For messages below 100 characters, text scrolling behavior is normal, and message is repeated when the ticker is fully blank (as expected).
However, for messages above 100 characters, text scrolling behavior is problematic, and appears "broken into 2 parts" around the 100th character position, and message is repeated before the ticker is fully blank, as if it's taking only the 1st 100 characters into account.

In addition, any blank spaces added at the end of the message are incorrectly inserted inside the message!

To reproduce the scenario, take an Arabic character (for example "ع") and paste it into the textbox of the regular "ticker2-red-alpha.gtzip" and then paste it repeatedly, checking the scrolling behavior for the message when it's less than 100 characters, and then above 100 characters.

Would appreciate your support on that case.
Thank you.
admin  
#2 Posted : Sunday, April 28, 2019 12:01:15 PM(UTC)
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Hi,

GT needs to split the ticker text into a number of segments for performance reasons.
(i.e a really long piece of text could end up being a graphic 8K in width, and run really slowly on older graphics cards!)

Therefore GT will split the ticker at approximately every 100 characters and will attempt to do this split if a space is found nearby
to ensure that certain languages don't get cut off unexpectedly.

So if you insert a space at the most appropriate point in the text, it should look a bit better.

Regards,

Martin
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Wayve  
#3 Posted : Sunday, April 28, 2019 2:43:21 PM(UTC)
Wayve

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Lebanon

Thank you Martin for the feedback.
The ticker splitting is a minor issue.
The main issue is the message being repeated before the ticker is fully blank.
To illustrate, use the following sample text in the sample ticker2-red-alpha:

تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود تود شركة1 شركة2 شركة3 شركة4 شركة5 شركة6 شركة7 شركة8 شركة9 شركة10

and notice how the text is restarted before the ticker is fully blank. This is the problematic behavior we are trying to fix.

Regards.
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