The parameters are similar to the Horizontal Ticker Tape with the exception that you set the type to scrollingnews . For those of you who haven't hung around a TV studio, the teleprompter is what news broadcasters read from while announcing the news. Text appears line by line, and lines that have already been read are forced off the top of the screen. This example adds a new element, time. The time begin tag tells each line what time it should appear on the screen.
Time is measured from the start of the presentation.
With small amounts of bandwidth, text can be controlled and animated as well as synchronized with other media types. Although you can create SMIL by hand, there are some visual authoring environments coming on the market. The best of these tools is V-Active for RealSystems G2 from Veon . TAG software also produces a G2 creation tool called TAG Editor 2.0 for Real G2 . Real has some simple authoring tools that can help create simple presentations.