Marquee

The Marquee element is designed to display a continuous scrolling text across the screen. This element is useful for presenting important announcements, headlines, or any other text that requires attention over a long period. The Marquee creates dynamic movement on a page, drawing the user’s focus to key information.

Common Use Cases:

• News Tickers: Displaying breaking news or updates.
• Announcements: Highlighting special events, promotions, or urgent information.
• Status Updates: Showing real-time updates on system or application status.

Its Configuration

The configuration of the element in vFlow 2.0 allows you to customize its behavior, appearance, and interaction across various devices. Through simple settings, you can control everything from its visibility and functionality to how it adapts to different screen sizes, making it flexible and user-friendly for both developers and end-users. Let’s have a look at each of its configurations:

Basic

Basic Configuration	Description
Type	The Type indicates the type of you are adding. In this case, it defaults to “Marquee” and cannot be changed here. This selection is made initially when you create element first-up.
Reference Name	The Reference Name is a unique identifier assigned to the element for internal use. This name is visible only to vFlow users, and is not displayed to end-users. The Reference Name is intended for your convenience, helping you easily identify and manage the element throughout.
Label	The Label is the name or text displayed on the element, making it easily recognizable to end-users.
Description	The Description field is intended for use by application designers or administrators (vFlow users) to provide additional context or details about the element. This description is not visible to end-users and is used solely for internal reference to assist with element management.

Properties

Properties	Description
Visible	To make this invisible, unselect this checkbox.
Mandatory	If checked, it indicates that the button’s action is required for the form submission or workflow, enforcing user interaction before proceeding.
Leading Icon & its type	It’s an option to add an icon or image before the text to indicate its purpose. You can select among None, IMAGE, and MATICON.
Trailing Icon	You can add an icon or image after the text, enhancing the field’s visual guidance. You can select among None, IMAGE, and MATICON.
Read-Only	Selecting this will display the content without allowing user edits.
Slide	You can select whether you want it to slide from left to right, right to left, up to down, and down to up.
Speed	There are 4 speed modes to choose from: slower, slow, fast, and faster.

After assigning all the properties, you can the changes.

Style

The Style option allows you to personalize the appearance of the element. This includes adjusting various visual aspects to ensure it complements your application’s overall design. Here’s a breakdown of different settings that you can make adjustments to:

• Laptop/Desktop width: The button automatically expands to take up 100% of the available width on desktop and laptop screens, ensuring it spans the entire container. However, this width can be adjusted according to the specific design or layout requirements.
• Tab width: On tablet devices, the button will also span 100% of the container’s width. This ensures that it adapts well to medium-sized screens, making it easier for users to interact with on touch devices. You can adjust this width as needed based on design preferences.
• Mobile width: For mobile devices, the button remains at 100% width to ensure full visibility and easy tap interaction, even on smaller screens. Like the other devices, this width can be adjusted as per requirement.

Font

• Family: You can select the font family for text in the element. If no specific font is chosen, “None” will use the default font.

• Size: You can specify the font size in pixels (px).
• Color: You can set the font color using the color picker or a hexadecimal or RGB color code. The default opacity is 100%.

• Alphabet Case: You can choose the text case (e.g., uppercase, lowercase) or select “None” to keep the original case.
• Text Alignment: You can set the text alignment (e.g., left, center, right) or select “None” for default alignment.

Dimension

• Height: You can define the height of the element in pixels (px) or percentage (%).
• Maximum Height: You can set the maximum height to prevent the element from exceeding this limit.
• Width: You can specify the width of the element in pixels (px) or percentage (%).
• Maximum Width: You can define the maximum width to prevent the element from expanding beyond this size.

Spacing

• Margin: To adjust the space around the element, enter values for top, right, bottom, and left margins in pixels (px). Default is 0px for all sides.
• Padding: To set the internal space within the element, enter values for top, right, bottom, and left padding in pixels (px). The default is 0px for all sides.
• Border Radius: To define the curvature of the corners of the element, enter values for top-left, top-right, bottom-right, and bottom-left in pixels (px). The default is 0px for all corners.
• Custom CSS Class Name
  • Users can enter custom CSS class names in the provided input field to apply additional styles.
  • Multiple Classes Names can be provided, If needed. They can be applied by separating them with commas, as indicated by the example (classA, classB).

Style

This option allows you to apply several animations to enhance the element’s loading appeal. The following are the available animations:

• Bounce
• Flash
• Pulse
• Rubber Band
• Handshake

Their Configuration:
Click the TYPE list, and then select an animation to apply an effect when the element loads.

After you select one of the animations (for example, Bounce), you will see the following configuration options:

• Speed: In this field, you can select one of the following options to adjust the speed of the animation:
  • Faster
  • Fast
  • Slower
  • Slow
• Delay: Click this list to select a value (for example, 3 seconds). This value specifies a time period. The application will load the animation after this time period (e.g., 3 seconds).
• Repeat: In this list, select a value (for example, 2). This value specifies the total number of times the application will play the animation.

After you configure the element’s animation properties, click to apply them to the elements.

Data

Under Data Source, you can select the data type and its path.

Note: To know more about Data, click here or check the post under configurator.