This Day in History ticker?
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Hi folks,
I’ve found a handful of This Day in History modules and even RSS feeds, but they all show one fact per day. What I have in mind is a TDIH that’s like a news ticker. For example, if today were Feb. 23, then it would display “1836 - Battle of Alamo in Texas” and then four seconds later show “1887 - French Riviera hit by earthquake” and so on. Does such a thing already exist? If not, could someone help me code it?
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@donutsoup I think @cowboysdude’s module should do what you want: https://forum.magicmirror.builders/topic/1803/mmm-history/9
It’s a TDIH module that cycles through different years and their significance.
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@ninjabreadman Thank you! I wonder if there’s a way to make it display not quite so much info? Like just a little blurb before moving on to the next event on the day in question?
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You mean just showing an excerpt of the actual text? You could try to fiddle around with CSS using
text-overflow: ellipsis;but this does not support multiline text. So it would be very ugly :) Besides that, this is not possible at this point.
Should be easy to implement something likemaxLength: 200,to cut the text after 200 characters and to show a … at the end to indicate there is more text. I don’t see the use, as you cannot tap the … to see the whole text.I submitted a Pull Request, let’s see if cowboysdude accepts my changes to his module :)
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@yawns Thank you! Solid suggestions. Yeah an excerpt would work. I just want less info on the screen at a time, and more of them. What I was envisioning is like what pops up when you type a date into Wikipedia (is that a faux pas? Noob here…). This was under the “Feb 12” entry:
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@yawns Ok I think I found what I’m looking for here: http://history.muffinlabs.com
Now how do I get it on my Magic Mirror? Again, Noob here.
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Just write a module.
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@yawns said in This Day in History ticker?:
You mean just showing an excerpt of the actual text? You could try to fiddle around with CSS using
text-overflow: ellipsis;but this does not support multiline text. So it would be very ugly :) Besides that, this is not possible at this point.
Should be easy to implement something likemaxLength: 200,to cut the text after 200 characters and to show a … at the end to indicate there is more text. I don’t see the use, as you cannot tap the … to see the whole text.I submitted a Pull Request, let’s see if cowboysdude accepts my changes to his module :)
I wouldn’t have a problem with that if it’s a config option. :)
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@cowboysdude said in This Day in History ticker?:
I wouldn’t have a problem with that if it’s a config option. :)
That’s exactly what I submitted: https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-History/pulls
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@yawns said in This Day in History ticker?:
@cowboysdude said in This Day in History ticker?:
I wouldn’t have a problem with that if it’s a config option. :)
That’s exactly what I submitted: https://github.com/cowboysdude/MMM-History/pulls
Then request accepted :) Thank you! It’s done!
