Add a sports ticker to an access form?

[raremind]

Hi, we have a ton of employees that are wasting time switching back
and forth from their data entry duties to check sports scores. While I
am a sports fan It stands to reason that I don't want to stop them
from checking but I would like them to stay focused on their work. I
wanted to add a sports ticker to our access DB so our local sports
teams can be displayed as games are going. I searched the internet and
the forums and was unable to find any examples of this? Can anyone
help?

 

[kc-mass]

Hi,

I think the Ticker is the easy part. All it really is is a long text box in
which you iterate through and display segments of text. You show characters
1 to 100, then 2 to 101, etc Look here for a simple example:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-3563206.php

I think you will need to repaint the screen each time to make sure the
display keeps up while Access is doing other things. The big question is
where and how you capture the data and how you update data and abandon old
data in the text string that feeds this..

Also make sure you include a way to shut it off.

Regards

Kevin