how to pull new element added to an array?

[cowboysdude]

Why are making this so hard?

[justjim1220]

@cowboysdude

GOD, I WISH I KNEW!!!

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil, @cowboysdude, @Sean

I created a repository, hopefully it will make it easier for you to help.

https://github.com/justjim1220/MMM-NewsFeedTicker

ALL help is MUCH APPRECIATED!!!

I gotta learn this stuff one way or another!

:smiling_face_with_sunglasses:

[sdetweil]

@justjim1220 I am trying to test my changes, but the module getDom() method is never called…

changed the module name in module.js to match the file name and config module name.

loads with no errors, shows loading the module js and registering the module…

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil

What is the possibility of using and array of sorts?

place the logos in a pics folder, call them according to the newsItem[activeItem].title, Ive seen some examples, and tried it a few different ways, but not sure if I am missing something as I can’t get it to work.

recent example tried:
feeds…

            {
                title: "New York Times: ",
                url: "http://www.nytimes.com/services/xml/rss/nyt/HomePage.xml"
            },
            {
                title: "Wall St. Journal: ",
                url: "http://www.wsj.com/xml/rss/3_7085.xml"
            },
            {
                title: "USA Today: ",
                url: "http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/UsatodaycomNation-TopStories"
            },
            {
                title: "BBC World News: ",
                url: "http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world/rss.xml#"
            }

Array…

iconArray: {
            "USAToday": "USA Today: ",
            "NewYorkTimes": "New York Times: ",
            "WallStJournal": "Wall St. Journal: ",
            "BBCWorldNews": "BBC World News: "
        }

Added this to start function…

 this.logo = {};

sample code…

var logo = this.logo;

            if (this.config.showDescription) {
                var description = document.createElement("div");
                //description.setAttribute("style", "padding-top: 25px");
                description.className = "bright xlarge bold" + (!this.config.wrapDescription ? " no-wrap" : "");
                var txtDesc = this.newsItems[this.activeItem].description;
                description.innerHTML = "<img class = image src=./modules/default/newsfeed/pics/" + logo.icon + ".png height=150px valign=middle>" + "<marquee scrollamount=20 scrolldelay=0 left=500px>" + "<font color=yellow>" + moment(new Date(this.newsItems[this.activeItem].pubdate)).fromNow() + "&nbsp; : &nbsp;" + "</font>" + this.newsItems[this.activeItem].title + "&nbsp; || &nbsp;" + txtDesc + "</marquee>";
                wrapper.appendChild(description);
			}

Any chance this could work easier if I had it coded correctly?

Seems Like I should be declaring the

newsItem[activeItem].title

to equal the icon/logo in some fashion…

[sdetweil]

@justjim1220 no, not really…

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil

ok, just a thought, seen it with a few other modules. Thanks!

[sdetweil]

@justjim1220 any idea why the newsticker doesn’t work at all?

u don’t have a package.json, so the install instructions for npm install is not needed…

[justjim1220]

@sdetweil

No, no idea, one of the reasons I uploaded it as a repository, to let you and whoever else wants to gander at it and see what the issues are or could be.

Not sure when you downloaded it, but I made some minor changes to it a few hours ago. just some syntax errors and such.

Nonetheless, still can’t get it to work.

[sdetweil]

@justjim1220 yeh, I just want to get default behavior working… I have added my code, it should work, just want to test…