How would you do this?

[Andy_Hollywood]

I've added the looping... the image thing is easy enough, i just don't have an image handy to try out, but you can see where i'd add it...

 import java.awt.FontMetrics;
 import java.awt.Graphics;
 import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
 import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
 
 import javax.swing.JComponent;
 import javax.swing.Timer;
 
 /**
  * @author ad
  */
 public class ScrollingTextComponent extends JComponent implements ActionListener{
 
 	private String[] text;
 	private Timer t;
 
 	int start = 80;
 	
 	private boolean firstTime = true;
 	/**
 	 * Create a new Scrolling Text Component
 	 * Either Up for Left.
 	 */
 	public ScrollingTextComponent(String[] text) {
 		this.text = text;
 		this.t = new Timer(20, this);
 		this.t.start();
 	}
 	
 	
 	/**
 	 * paint
 	 * @see javax.swing.JComponent#paint(java.awt.Graphics)
 	 */
 	public void paint(Graphics g) {
 		if(this.firstTime) {
 			this.start = g.getClipBounds().height;
 			this.firstTime = false;
 		}
 		
 		FontMetrics fm = g.getFontMetrics();
 		int yLocation = this.start + fm.getHeight();
 		int stopCount = 0;
 		for(int i  = 0; i < this.text.length; i++) {
 			if(yLocation > 0) {
     		    g.drawString(this.text[i], 0, yLocation);	
 			}else {
 				stopCount++;
 			}
 			yLocation += + fm.getHeight();
 		}
 		//g.drawImage(this.image, 0, y, null);
 		
 		if(stopCount == this.text.length){
 			this.start = g.getClipBounds().height;
 		}
 		this.start--;
 	}
 
 
 	/**
 	 * actionPerformed
 	 * @see java.awt.event.ActionListener#actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent)
 	 */
 	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
 		/**
 		 * Force a Repaint.
 		 */
 		this.repaint();
 	}
 }