[RESOLVED] [2005] Scrolling Label Text

[Amien]

lol .. i'm afraid your right .. changed .. and scrolling is good now .. text is also updated

[Amien]

off topic:

what would happen if the xml is saved at the same time that the xml script from above is reading the file .. would the scroll text/interface hang?

i should make a script to test this ..

[.NetNinja]

Not really sure. You could get an Access Denied on either side.

[jmcilhinney]

Great control! I think you should post it in the CodeBank!

@jmcilhinney: The scrolling text link in your signature is missing the C# link.

Yeah, that's on purpose because I haven't written the C# version yet. Now's as good a time as any I suppose...

[jmcilhinney]

Yeah, that's on purpose because I haven't written the C# version yet. Now's as good a time as any I suppose...

...Done.

[Amien]

when i use larget text with quit a few chars .. and the texts is totally away on one side ... it takes quit some time before the text appears again on the other side .. the marquee control is empty for a few seconds .. any ideas? is this coded in the marquee control itself?

[.NetNinja]

when i use larget text with quit a few chars .. and the texts is totally away on one side ... it takes quit some time before the text appears again on the other side .. the marquee control is empty for a few seconds .. any ideas? is this coded in the marquee control itself?

Is that directed to me or jmcilhinney?

If it is towards me it probably has something to do with the math on the OnPaint event. I'll take a look at it tomorrow.

What font and size are you using?

[jmcilhinney]

Is that directed to me or jmcilhinney?

Yeah, especially in long threads it's a good idea to quote the post you're referring to. Even if you think it's obvious that you're referring to the one directly above, there's no guarantee that someone else won't slip a post in just before you.

[Amien]

your right .. the message was too .NetNinja
font is calibri .. size 36

[.NetNinja]

your right .. the message was too .NetNinja
font is calibri .. size 36

I used one that was around 85 characters long. With the font details your provided and I am not seeing a delay. What is the size of the control? Do you sample string you are using?

[Amien]

size: 1270; 74

i'm using about 220 chars .. the more chars i use the longer the cap. When i use only a few chars .. i have no problem. looks like the longer the string .. the longer the cap

[.NetNinja]

I'm honestly not seeing an issue with it. I just did a sample string with 220 characters with no problem.

[razohad]

Hope you don't mind i changed it up a bit to scroll up and down.

thanks a lot man.

[stateofidleness]

how about a 'marquee' inside of a listview cell or datagridview cell?
this would be sweet. then you could set the width of the column to avoid nasty scrollbars and if the text extends past the visible area, then it marquees.

[obi1kenobi]

Good idea but perhaps it would be better suited to WPF since the marquee is quite a performance hog on older machines... It used 20% CPU on our old school computers :S

[michalss]

Hi all

can anyone post the sample app please how to use it ??


thx

[DamoUK]

I'm honestly not seeing an issue with it. I just did a sample string with 220 characters with no problem.

So, I know this thread has been basically dead for over a year, but I've just stumbled across it; it's a great control, and I'm looking to accomplish something similar to what this does, with a few alterations...

I need two text fields, a "header" and a "body" (a bit like on the TV News, where "BREAKING NEWS " is the header and then "As usual, nothing newsworthy happened today" would be the body, but both in different colours.

Any idea whether this could be accomplished with a few modifications to this control, or would I have to start from scratch?

I've modified it to include (and concatonate) the header and body, but have got stuck on the different colours part.

Sorry if this is dragging up an old thread, and making you have to rack your brains about this control again, I'm fairly new to Custom Control writing!

Thanks

DamoUK

[rafhelp]

thats cool but how do you use this in your own app if you made a module/class with just the code to show the marque we could then import that file and use the function/sub??

[jasper7]

Hi

this is great, it fits in what i have to do.

I have noticed one Bug that I think needs fixing.

If you enter more Text than the Size of the textLabel, it gets truncated in the Marquee.

Is this something that can be fixed.

So if the Label is 200 characters and you enter 300 in the property. Its gets truncated when run.

I plan to adopt it for a Multi screen enviroment, where I hope its can be strectched asone continious scroll. It may not be an issue for me, but its does show up on a single screen

Steve

[obi1kenobi]

You might want to consider WPF for that, actually... Repeated multi-screen-size drawing on CPU is making me shudder just thinking about it