Anyone could point me to some code/give me ideas on how to create a smooth scrolling vertical marquee for VFP 8,9 Any help is appreciated.
Nelson Marmol
Anyone could point me to some code/give me ideas on how to create a smooth scrolling vertical marquee for VFP 8,9 Any help is appreciated.
Nelson Marmol
Here's a quick program that will scroll messages. Put the following in a prg file and run it.
I'd make a containerScrollArea a class that encapsulates the timer, labels, and scrolling code. Give it GetNextMessage method that you can override to retrieve the messages.
* Put a container on the screen to hold our scroller
_screen.AddObject("containerScrollArea", "container")
WITH _Screen.containerScrollArea
* Size it
.Visible = .t.
.Width = 100
.Height = 100
* Add two labels, one to hold each scrolling message
.AddObject("labelScroll1", "Label")
.AddObject("labelScroll2", "Label")
* This timer will move the labels to scroll them
.AddObject("timerScroller", "ScrollTimer")
ENDWITH
WITH _Screen.containerScrollArea.labelScroll1
* The labels are positioned below the margin of the container, so they're not initially visible
.Top = 101
.Height = 100
.Visible = .t.
.WordWrap = .t.
.BackStyle= 0
.Caption = "This is the first scrolling text, which is scrolling."
ENDWITH
WITH _Screen.containerScrollArea.labelScroll2
* The labels are positioned below the margin of the container, so they're not initially visible
.Top = 200
.Height = 100
.Visible = .t.
.WordWrap = .t.
.BackStyle= 0
.Caption = "This is the second scrolling text, which is scrolling."
ENDWITH
* Start the timer, which scrolls the labels
_Screen.containerScrollArea.timerScroller.Interval = 100
DEFINE CLASS ScrollTimer AS Timer
PROCEDURE Timer
* If the first label is still in view, move it by one pixel
IF This.Parent.labelScroll1.Top > -100
This.Parent.labelScroll1.Top = This.Parent.labelScroll1.Top - 1
ELSE
* If the first label has scrolled out of view on the top of the container, move it back to the bottom.
This.Parent.labelScroll1.Top = 101
* Load some new text here
ENDIF
IF This.Parent.labelScroll2.Top > -100
* If the second label is still in view, move it by one pixel
This.Parent.labelScroll2.Top = This.Parent.labelScroll2.Top - 1
ELSE
* If the second label has scrolled out of view on the top of the container, move it back to the bottom.
This.Parent.labelScroll2.Top = 101
* Load some new text here
ENDIF
ENDPROC
ENDDEFINE
Unfortunately the nature of my work leaves me no time for fooling around with graphics, however if I did I would look into using GDI+ with VFP. Here is an article to get you started