How do I scroll text in WPF textBlock control ?

Answer 1

http://jobijoy.blogspot.com/2008/08/wpf-custom-controls-marquee-control.html

You can check the idea behind this Marquee control. When you say to scroll the text inside the textBlock.. think about scrolling a long textblock inside a marqueee control. This control is a ContentControl which can scroll any Content inside.

Answer 2

Here's a complete sample - verified that it works. I modified source posted here by Philipsh (minor changes to control layout to make it more presentable)

I kind of skipped the animation chapter in Programming WPF . So I can't explain how it works.. the book is not at hand. I'd be guessing at best if I tried to post answers..

XAML

<Window x:Class="transforms.Window1" 
    Title="Window2" SizeToContent="WidthAndHeight">
    <DockPanel>
        <StackPanel DockPanel.Dock="Bottom" Orientation="Horizontal">
            <TextBox x:Name="txtTexttoScroll">Enter some text to marquee</TextBox>
            <Button x:Name="button1" Click="button1_Click">Start Scrolling</Button>
        </StackPanel>
        <Canvas Name="canvas1" Height="32" ClipToBounds="True" Background="AliceBlue" Width="200">
            <TextBlock Canvas.Left="0" Canvas.Top="0" Height="31" Name="textBlock1" Width="{Binding ElementName=canvas1, Path=ActualWidth}" Text="Have a nice day!" FontSize="18.6666666666667" TextWrapping="NoWrap" VerticalAlignment="Center">  
                <TextBlock.RenderTransform> 
                    <TransformGroup> 
                        <ScaleTransform ScaleX="1" ScaleY="1"/>  
                        <SkewTransform AngleX="0" AngleY="0"/>  
                        <RotateTransform Angle="0"/>  
                        <TranslateTransform x:Name="rtTTransform"/>  
                    </TransformGroup> 
                </TextBlock.RenderTransform> 
            </TextBlock>
        </Canvas>
    </DockPanel>
</Window>

Button Click Event handler

private void button1_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)  
{  
  double textBoxWidth = 10;  

  double pixelXFactor;  
  double canvaswidth = this.canvas1.Width;  
  double negXOffSet = 0;  
  double fromSecValue = 0;  
  double equSlope = 0.022546419;  
  double offSetY = 10.96286472;  
  double stringSize;  

  int textLen = txtTexttoScroll.Text.Length;  

  //Set the width of the text box according to the width (not length) of the text in it.  
  System.Globalization.CultureInfo enUsCultureInfo;  
  Typeface fontTF;  
  FormattedText frmmtText;  
  if (textLen > 0)  
  {  
    enUsCultureInfo = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.GetCultureInfo("en-us");  
    fontTF = new Typeface(this.textBlock1.FontFamily, this.textBlock1.FontStyle, this.textBlock1.FontWeight, this.textBlock1.FontStretch);  
    frmmtText = new FormattedText(txtTexttoScroll.Text, enUsCultureInfo, FlowDirection.LeftToRight, fontTF, this.textBlock1.FontSize, this.textBlock1.Foreground);  

    stringSize = frmmtText.Width;  

    if (stringSize < 100)  
      pixelXFactor = 1.02;  
    else 
      pixelXFactor = 1.01;  

    textBoxWidth = stringSize * pixelXFactor;  

    this.textBlock1.Width = textBoxWidth;  
    negXOffSet = textBoxWidth * -1;        

    fromSecValue = (stringSize * equSlope) + offSetY;             

    this.textBlock1.Text = txtTexttoScroll.Text;  

    Storyboard _sb = new Storyboard();  
    Duration durX = new Duration(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(fromSecValue));  
    DoubleAnimation daX = new DoubleAnimation(canvaswidth, negXOffSet, durX);  
    daX.RepeatBehavior = RepeatBehavior.Forever;  

    Storyboard.SetTargetName(daX, "rtTTransform");  
    Storyboard.SetTargetProperty(daX, new PropertyPath(TranslateTransform.XProperty));  

    _sb.Children.Add(daX);  
    _sb.Begin(this.textBlock1);  
  }  
  else 
  {  
    textBoxWidth = 1;  
    stringSize = 0;  
  }

Answer 3

You could scroll textblock with this code:

    <ScrollViewer Name="myScroll" HorizontalScrollBarVisibility="Disabled" VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Hidden" HorizontalAlignment="Right" Width="414.403" Height="226.645" VerticalAlignment="Bottom">
        <Grid Name="Grid">
            <TextBlock Name="txbReceta" TextWrapping="Wrap"
                       MaxWidth="{Binding ElementName=Grid, Path=ActualWidth}" FontSize="20">
                Twitter is useless. Twitter is useless.
                Twitter is useless. Twitter is useless.
                Twitter is useless. Twitter is useless.
                Twitter is useless. Twitter is useless.
            </TextBlock>

        </Grid>
    </ScrollViewer>

In this case vertical scroll bar is hidden, you can put custom buttons to scroll up and down your textblock.

private void btnUp_Click(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
{
     myScroll.LineUp();
     myScroll.LineUp();
}

Answer 4

You can take a look at http://weblogs.asp.net/razan/archive/2009/10/01/creating-marquee-scrolling-text-in-wpf.aspx