SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATING ANIMATED GRAPHICAL ELEMENTS IN A SCROLLING DISPLAY WINDOW

摘要

A system and method for displaying animated graphical elements, representing static text, and static and animated graphical elements, in a scrolling ticker. The ticker elements are mapped to an off screen buffer (106) which is larger than the ticker window, and a portion of the buffer, beginning at an offset point (116), is repeatedly copied to the ticker window. Concurrently, any animated graphical element mapped to the buffer is updated, if needed, with the next frame (114). Ticker element objects may include headline and advertisement data retrieved from remote sources, and stored in separate healine and add channel files. The ticker may be scrolled either horizontally or vertically.