Thanks for all your replies. It's great to see people already using the code for their own applications. Hopefully we'll see some follow-up CUFPs now :-)

I'm encouraged by the response, and I think I will put the code on CPAN. "Published and be damned" as the saying goes :-) A scrolling marquee is interesting - I might have to try something similar in wxPerl.

As a little aside, I was working on similar (but more complicated code) for the SkySports scorelines soccer results applet data file. If you're into your soccer, then this is for you: it's very comprehensive. It includes each team's starting line ups, substitutes, name of referee, match attendance, goal scorers, missed penalties, bookings and all the rest of it. It's far more complicated (had to use Mocha to decompile the Java code), and eventually I lost interest. I did document what I've discovered about the file format though (quite a bit too), so if anyone wants to work together or work separately on it, feel free to /msg me.

In reply to Re: News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file by SuperCruncher
in thread News alerts using the BBC's news ticker data file by SuperCruncher

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