Ticker
The Ticker widget displays a continuously scrolling horizontal text feed. It can show static text you type in, or pull live headlines automatically from an RSS feed — making it ideal for news tickers, sports scores, stock feeds, and breaking news banners.
Adding a Ticker
Click Ticker in the Widgets panel in the sidebar — it's placed immediately, pre-filled with sample headlines, already selected.
Configuration
Select the Ticker. Content and separator styling live in the Design tab; text styling is in the context toolbar; scrolling behavior lives in the Animate tab.
Content (Design tab)
Choose Static or RSS.
Static — a plain text box, one item per line:
Breaking News
Markets open higher
Weather update tonight at 6The separator symbol (below) is inserted automatically between items when displayed — don't type it yourself.
RSS — pick a curated source (BBC News, NPR News, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Guardian) or choose Custom RSS URL to enter your own feed. Set a Refresh Interval between 5 and 60 minutes (default 15 minutes) for how often CloudMonet re-fetches the feed.
The refresh interval is in minutes, not seconds. The feed is fetched by CloudMonet's server, so the URL needs to be publicly accessible — private or authenticated feeds aren't supported.
Separator (Design tab, horizontal only)
The symbol shown between items:
| Field | Options |
|---|---|
| Symbol | 9 presets (•, |, ►, —, ◆, /, ·, », ★) or custom text |
| Color | Any color, independent of the item text color |
| Size | 8–96px |
| Spacing | 4–200px gap on each side of the symbol |
Text styling (context toolbar)
With the Ticker 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 | Left or right |
| Speed | 10–300 px/s |
| Loop continuously | On by default — items cycle seamlessly with no gap. Turn off to play once and stop. |
Scrolling always pauses on hover in the editor/preview — this is a fixed behavior, not a setting.
Bind
From the Bind tab, a Ticker 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.
Ticker vs Scroller
| Ticker | Scroller | |
|---|---|---|
| Direction | Horizontal | Vertical |
| Best for | News tickers, lower-third feeds | Lists, credits, multi-line content |