Sunday, April 4, 2010

Is this possible?

Hello there.

We had an idea for a Flash intro for our website, but we don't know if it is even possible -- so I thought I would come here to ask. If it is possible, we will hire someone to do it.

Basically, we want to replicate the look of the RSS Visualizer Screen Saver on the Mac. If you go to your Screen Saver settings in System Preferences, there is a screen saver called ''RSS Visualizer''. Basically it takes an RSS feed and displays the article titles and the first three lines of text of each article for a second and then rotates them off the screen, whereupon soon after the next article spins into view. It cycles through them one at a time in this fashion. Meanwhile, the background (which is like a cloud image) is also in motion. It's very cool and you will probably have to look at your screen saver preferences to get an idea of what I am talking about as it is hard to explain. We would like to pull the titles and text from just a text or xml file or something, rather than an RSS feed.

Now would something like this be possible for a Flash website intro? Thanks in advance!

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