How do I create a Flash-based scrolling marquee?

[wienerdog]

Sorry for the noob question, but I'm trying to dive headfirst into CSS and Flash at the same time, and my skill levels are very spotty.

I'm trying to create a client list using a scrolling marquee of logos that the user will control with buttons to go left and right. When the user clicks on a logo, it will bring up a description of the client below the scrolling marquee, which would preferably be in HTML.

A few questions:
What is the best way to accomplish this? I'm thinking a Flash movie that scrolls automatically, and the user will have buttons that can control the speed.

Is there a template I can buy to save myself time from designing the marquee from scratch?

Does it require JavaScript to create an effect of bringing up the client description below the marquee when you click on their logo?

I have no JavaScript knowledge, and limited Flash and CSS skills, so I'm trying to discern what I can do, or what will needed to be given to a freelancer to do.

[chris_bcn]

I know nothing about flash, and maybe not even that much.

Have a lok at this:

http://www.couloir.org/js_slideshow/#2

I used it in a site last year - very nice it is - js and css - the js is a touch heavy, but it's a nice solution

[JPnyc]

Doesn't require it, but it's probably the best way, Javascript I mean. You could do it with an iframe without active scripting. But JS is the best way to go. Don't use Flash for it.

[wienerdog]

Can you use JS to control the speed of a rolling horizontal marquee?

Also, how would I get each logo to be a link to a text description of that client and appear below the marquee? Would I define each image in the marquee to be a <a> link? Is JS required to bring up the descirption in that page, or would I make seperate HTML files for each client, repeating the marquee in each one?

[JPnyc]

Yes, JS can do variable speed marquee, but not an HTML marquee (meaning the <marquee> tag, which only works in IE to begin with).

You can do that either way. You could use JS with 2 arrays or you could use an iframe with a separate html doc for each description of each client, then make their logo the link to it. Either will work, the JS solution is more elegant, but you have to know how to code.

[wienerdog]

Yes, JS can do variable speed marquee, but not an HTML marquee (meaning the <marquee> tag, which only works in IE to begin with).

You can do that either way. You could use JS with 2 arrays or you could use an iframe with a separate html doc for each description of each client, then make their logo the link to it. Either will work, the JS solution is more elegant, but you have to know how to code.

I'm a real novice when it comes to coding anyhting other than some CSS and HTML. I don't even know what iframes are, and I don't know how to code JS. Sounds like I'll have to outsource this project unless I do it in Flash.

What would be the downside of using Flash for something like this?

[JPnyc]

For a marquee? None that I can think of. It's window dressing not functionality so you can do it in whatever means you like with nothing to worry about. Now if it were a navigation menu, that would be another matter.

[wienerdog]

That's what I figured. I think I could handle doing a Flash-based marquee. In fact, if I could find a template on-line, that would make it faster. If it was going to be done by JS, I'd have to have someone else do it.

[wienerdog]

I'd like to use some form of template for this, but I'm not sure I can find a template for just a marquee. It looks like most template sites are based on entire site designs. I'd like to save myself time if I need to do this myself. :0/

[JPnyc]

I bet if you googled you could find a JS script for it.