Scroller
The Scroller widget displays text that scrolls vertically, flowing upward or downward continuously. It's well suited to leaderboards, credit rolls, multi-line news feeds, sports standings, and any content that's too long to display all at once.
Adding a Scroller
Click Scroller in the Widgets panel in the sidebar — it's placed immediately, pre-filled with sample content, already selected.
Configuration
Select the Scroller. Content lives in the Design tab; scrolling behavior lives in the Animate tab.
Content (Design tab)
Choose Static or RSS.
Static — an editable list where each row is one scroll entry. Add or remove rows directly, for example:
1. Manchester City — 72 pts
2. Arsenal — 68 pts
3. Liverpool — 65 pts
4. Chelsea — 58 ptsRSS — pick a curated source (BBC News, NPR News, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Guardian) or choose Custom RSS URL. Set a Refresh Interval between 5 and 60 minutes (default 15 minutes).
Scroller supports RSS feeds the same way Ticker does.
Text styling (context toolbar)
With the Scroller selected, font family, font size, text color, stroke color, and background color are set in the context toolbar above the canvas — the same controls used for a Text object.
Scroll (Animate tab)
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Direction | Up or down |
| Speed | 10–300 px/s (up to 500 px/s in Scroll + Hold mode) |
| Loop continuously | On by default — content cycles seamlessly with no gap |
| Scroll Mode | Continuous (steady scroll), Scroll + Hold (scrolls, then pauses before continuing), or Snap + Hold (jumps between pages, pausing on each) |
Two more settings appear once Scroll Mode is set to Scroll + Hold or Snap + Hold:
| Setting | Description |
|---|---|
| Hold Duration | 0.5–10s — how long each page pauses before advancing |
| Visible Lines | 1–20 — how many rows are shown at once; the box height snaps to fit exactly this many |
Scrolling always pauses on hover in the editor/preview — this is a fixed behavior, not a setting.
Bind
From the Bind tab, a Scroller can expose Text, Font family, Font size, Background, Fill color, Stroke color, and Stroke width as operator controls or data bindings — there's no widget-specific field like Timer or Counter has. See Bind for how exposing, locking, and control types work.
Scroller vs Ticker
| Scroller | Ticker | |
|---|---|---|
| Direction | Vertical | Horizontal |
| Best for | Leaderboards, credits, long lists | News tickers, lower-third feeds |