Flying(scrolling) text in .NET 2.0 C#

[Bosnewi]

hi,

What's the easiest way to make a text to fly inside of any control such
as textbox. Any ideas???

[Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]]

Hmm. Back in the old days, a couple of tokes on the old Bong used to make
text fly everywhere. Which direction did you want your text to fly in from?

Have you tried Flash? There is no easy way, you are going to have to redraw
the text in some sort of timed method at different positions, or use GDI+ to
animate some sort of image that is overlaid on the textbox.

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"Bosnewi" wrote:

hi,

What's the easiest way to make a text to fly inside of any control such
as textbox. Any ideas???

[BisSoft]

I tryed something in flash, but the problem remains because the text needs
to be loaded from a database. I know there is a way to communicate between
C# and Flash, but still the question is how to make dynamic text
flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Thanks anyway.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:59:02 -0700, Peter Bromberg [C# MVP] wrote:

Hmm. Back in the old days, a couple of tokes on the old Bong used to make
text fly everywhere. Which direction did you want your text to fly in from?

Have you tried Flash? There is no easy way, you are going to have to redraw
the text in some sort of timed method at different positions, or use GDI+ to
animate some sort of image that is overlaid on the textbox.

Peter

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,

I would go with Flash , ( if you know how to program flash of course )
You can pass parameters to the flash player and use this parameter later to
achieve the flying effect.
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"BisSoft" <bi******@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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I tryed something in flash, but the problem remains because the text needs
to be loaded from a database. I know there is a way to communicate
between
C# and Flash, but still the question is how to make dynamic text
flyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.

Thanks anyway.

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 03:59:02 -0700, Peter Bromberg [C# MVP] wrote:

Hmm. Back in the old days, a couple of tokes on the old Bong used to make
text fly everywhere. Which direction did you want your text to fly in
from?

Have you tried Flash? There is no easy way, you are going to have to
redraw
the text in some sort of timed method at different positions, or use GDI+
to
animate some sort of image that is overlaid on the textbox.

Peter

[Steven Cheng[MSFT]]

Hi Bosnewi,

It'll be very hard to display such flying text in any kind of winform
controls. However, if you want to display such flying text on a form, you
can consider the following approachs:

1. Host a webbrowser component(activex or .net 2.0's managed webbrowser
wrapper class) and display a flash or animate GIF in it.

2. Create a custom winform UserControl and implement the flying text in the
usercontrol's drawing code logic

Thanks & Regards,

Steven Cheng
Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Bob Powell [MVP]]

To do it inside of a textbox is very difficult, to do it in a control that
doesn't have a Win32 control underneath the covers is simpler.

For simple marquee implementations you can use a timer to update the
rendering origin of the window and repaint the text.

For marquees that don't bow to the nasty fifo nature of the message queue,
you can use threading and the hardware based timers.

For rock-solid but more difficult to manage stuff you can use a DirectX
surface to project your text onto. The update rate of that is truly
impressive.

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"Bosnewi" <bi******@newsgroups.nospam> wrote in message
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hi,

What's the easiest way to make a text to fly inside of any control such as
textbox. Any ideas???

[BisSoft]

Hi,

This is finally some good answer. I did however find a way to do this. In
..NET 2.0 I put WebBrowser, in which I am loading marque made in flash. I
will have to thread it all since I am loading data from a database to
display. I did think of doing it through directX but I had no experience
with it, so maybe some time later.

Thanks for the answer