BorlandTalk.com Borland discussion newsgroups   Archives   FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  scrolling and crawling Goto page 1, 2  Next          BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Graphics View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message William Meyer Guest Posted: Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:59 pm    Post subject: scrolling and crawling I'm hoping to find some components that support scrolling and crawling text. I've plumbed torry.net, and come up nearly empty. If anyone knows of any sources for same, please let me know. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He's greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top Jon Lennart Aasenden Guest Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 1:25 am    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling Hm.. Try searching for "tickers" Scrolltext was the old amiga term I found a bunch. Jon Lennart Aasenden "William Meyer" <wmeyerNO (AT) SPAMsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote Quote: I'm hoping to find some components that support scrolling and crawling text. I've plumbed torry.net, and come up nearly empty. If anyone knows of any sources for same, please let me know. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He's greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top Peter Below (TeamB) Guest Posted: Sat Nov 20, 2004 7:18 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling In article <419cff3e$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, William Meyer wrote: Quote: I'm hoping to find some components that support scrolling and crawling text. I've plumbed torry.net, and come up nearly empty. If anyone knows of any sources for same, please let me know. Look for "marque" or "marquee" or "banner" as keywords. Search the newsgroup archives for PBBanner to find a simple example component. -- Peter Below (TeamB) Use the newsgroup archives : http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm http://groups.google.com http://www.prolix.be Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:20 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling On 11/19/04, Jon Lennart Aasenden said: Quote: Hm.. Try searching for "tickers" Scrolltext was the old amiga term I found a bunch. Thanks, I wouldn't have thought of those terms. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He's greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 4:28 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling On 11/20/04, Peter Below (TeamB) said: Quote: Look for "marque" or "marquee" or "banner" as keywords. Search the newsgroup archives for PBBanner to find a simple example component. Thanks, Peter, I did find a marquee that does a nice job of scrolling text. Haven't found anything good for crawling yet, though, and web searches turn up a lot of junk on crawling the web, of course. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He’s greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 6:16 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling On 11/22/04, Peter Below (TeamB) said: Quote: What is "crawling text" supposed to look like? Automated vertical movement of the text "crawling" up the screen, much like movie credits. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He’s greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top Peter Below (TeamB) Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 7:13 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling In article <41a221d7$1 (AT) newsgroups (DOT) borland.com>, William Meyer wrote: Quote: Look for "marque" or "marquee" or "banner" as keywords. Search the newsgroup archives for PBBanner to find a simple example component. Thanks, Peter, I did find a marquee that does a nice job of scrolling text. Haven't found anything good for crawling yet, though, and web searches turn up a lot of junk on crawling the web, of course. What is "crawling text" supposed to look like? -- Peter Below (TeamB) Use the newsgroup archives : http://www.mers.com/searchsite.html http://www.tamaracka.com/search.htm http://groups.google.com http://www.prolix.be Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 8:14 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling On 11/22/04, Warrick Wilson said: Quote: For what it's worth, I thought the terms were the other way around: "crawl" is horizontal, "scroll" is vertical. Doesn't help that you can find sites with "horizontal scrollers" and "vertical scrollers". So did I, but I changed my usage to conform to what appears to be conventional in Delphi circles. Quote: e.g. CNN has a text crawl across the bottom of their broadcast signal, but credits for a show are scrolled up the screen. Yup, but I would also mention that "roll", "scroll", and "crawl" are all applied to variations of these motions, without any self-evident /correct/ associations. At any rate, I have found one component that handles the horizontal motion (albeit for simple text with no variation in attributes within a string, such as italics, fg and bg colors, etc.), but so far have not found even that for the vertical variation. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He's greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top Warrick Wilson Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:04 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling "William Meyer" <wmeyerNO (AT) SPAMsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote Quote: On 11/22/04, Peter Below (TeamB) said: What is "crawling text" supposed to look like? Automated vertical movement of the text "crawling" up the screen, much like movie credits. -- Bill For what it's worth, I thought the terms were the other way around: "crawl" is horizontal, "scroll" is vertical. Doesn't help that you can find sites with "horizontal scrollers" and "vertical scrollers". e.g. CNN has a text crawl across the bottom of their broadcast signal, but credits for a show are scrolled up the screen. Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:05 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling On 11/22/04, Warrick Wilson said: Quote: Can you tell me which component that is? I've been trying to do something similar, to replace a Java applet being used on a web page. I've looked for a number of options, but like you found, the search terminology makes a huge difference in your results. TMarquee, from DithoSoft.de: http://www.torry.net/vcl/misceff/marques/tdmarquee.zip It does a decent job, but no support for changing attributes within a string. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He's greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:08 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling On 11/22/04, Warrick Wilson said: Quote: Can you tell me which component that is? I've also just downloaded oxLabels (demo version), which included oxMarquee, and that may be more like what I have been seeking. But so far, I have not found a communication path with the author. My attempts to send e-mail have bounced off, and calling the phone number listed on the site http://www.opaquesoftware.com/support1.htm got a very strange response; first a dial tone that sounded like a forward to a European system, then after two rings, a click, and silence. So I have no idea who this person may be, or whether there will be any support available. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He's greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top Warrick Wilson Guest Posted: Mon Nov 22, 2004 9:45 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling "William Meyer" <wmeyerNO (AT) SPAMsbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote Quote: On 11/22/04, Warrick Wilson said: For what it's worth, I thought the terms were the other way around: "crawl" is horizontal, "scroll" is vertical. Doesn't help that you can find sites with "horizontal scrollers" and "vertical scrollers". So did I, but I changed my usage to conform to what appears to be conventional in Delphi circles. e.g. CNN has a text crawl across the bottom of their broadcast signal, but credits for a show are scrolled up the screen. Yup, but I would also mention that "roll", "scroll", and "crawl" are all applied to variations of these motions, without any self-evident /correct/ associations. At any rate, I have found one component that handles the horizontal motion (albeit for simple text with no variation in attributes within a string, such as italics, fg and bg colors, etc.), but so far have not found even that for the vertical variation. Can you tell me which component that is? I've been trying to do something similar, to replace a Java applet being used on a web page. I've looked for a number of options, but like you found, the search terminology makes a huge difference in your results. Thanks. Back to top Roy M Klever Guest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 10:48 am    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling Hi Bill, Have you seen this: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/credits.php Kind Regards Roy Magne Klever Back to top William Meyer Guest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 4:17 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling On 11/23/04, Roy M Klever said: Quote: Have you seen this: http://www.saturnlaboratories.co.za/credits.php Thanks, Roy, I will give it a try. One thing about the things I've found so far: they're pretty unimaginative, making no provision for RTF, or any other method of dynamic mods to the text attributes. -- Bill -------- "Notice that while no one condemns a buyer wanting more for his money, not so a seller wanting more for his goods. He's greedy and just out to make a buck." -- Wayne Dunn Back to top Anders Isaksson Guest Posted: Tue Nov 23, 2004 5:55 pm    Post subject: Re: scrolling and crawling William Meyer wrote: Quote: but so far have not found even that for the vertical variation. The old RxLib has a 'SecretPanel' which can show a background picture and scroll text either horizontally or vertically. You can see it in the About-box in my BlockCAD program (see sig.) I suppose it is included in the JVCL, but don't have that installed so I can't check it out. -- Anders Isaksson, Sweden BlockCAD: http://w1.161.telia.com/~u16122508/proglego.htm Gallery: http://w1.161.telia.com/~u16122508/gallery/index.htm Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First         BorlandTalk.com Forum Index -> Delphi Graphics All times are GMT Goto page 1, 2  Next Page 1 of 2   Jump to: Select a forum C++ Builder Newsgroups----------------C++ BuilderC++ Builder (ActiveX)C++ Builder (Announcements)C++ Builder (Command Line Tools)C++ Builder DatabasesC++ Builder Databases (ADO)C++ Builder Databases (Desktop)C++ Builder Databases (InterBase Express)C++ Builder Databases (Multi-Tier)C++ Builder Databases (SQL Servers)C++ Builder (Graphics)C++ Builder (IDE)C++ Builder (Internet)C++ Builder (Internet Socket)C++ Builder (Internet Web)C++ Builder (Jobs)C++ Builder (Language)C++ Builder (Language C++)C++ Builder (Compatibility with MFC)C++ Builder (Native API)C++ Builder (Non-Technical)C++ Builder (Students)C++ Builder (Third Party Tools)C++ Builder (Upgrade)C++ Builder (VCL)C++ Builder (VCL Components Usage)C++ Builder (VCL Components Development)C++ Builder (VCL Usage)C++ Builder (WinAPI)C++ Builder Installation Delphi Newsgroups----------------Delphi (General)Delphi ActiveX Controls UsageDelphi ActiveX Controls DevelopmentDelphi As400Delphi DatabasesDelphi Databases (ADO)Delphi Databases (dbExpress)Delphi Databases (Desktop)Delphi Databases (InterBase Express)Delphi Databases (Multi-Tier)Delphi Databases (SQL Servers)Delphi DeploymentDelphi GraphicsDelphi IDEDelphi InternationalizationDelphi InternetDelphi Internet Isapi-WebBrokerDelphi Internet WebSnapDelphi Internet WinsockDelphi JobsDelphi Language BASMDelphi Language ObjectPascalDelphi Model Driven Architecture (General)Delphi Model Driven Architecture (Third Party)Delphi MultimediaDelphi Native APIDelphi Non-TechnicalDelphi ObjectPascalDelphi OLE AutomationDelphi OO designDelphi OpenToolsAPIDelphi Reporting-ChartingDelphi RTLDelphi StudentsDelphi TeamSourceDelphi Thirdparty ToolsDelphi Thirdparty Tools (General)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (IntraWeb)Delphi Thirdparty Tools (RaveReports)Delphi UpgradeDelphi VCLDelphi VCL ComponentsDelphi VCL Components UsingDelphi VCL Components WritingDelphi WebServices SOAPDelphi WinAPIDelphi XMLDelphi Installationcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.misccomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.usagecomp.lang.pascal.delphi.components.writingcomp.lang.pascal.delphi.databasescomp.lang.pascal.delphi.misccomp.sources.delphi JBuilder Newsgroups----------------JBuilderJBuilder AnnouncementsJBuilder Applet IssuesJBuilder As400JBuilder CompilerJBuilder CORBA/RMIJBuilder DatabasesJBuilder DB SwingJBuilder DebuggerJBuilder DeploymentJBuilder DocumentationJBuilder EnterpriseJBuilder HandheldJBuilder IDEJBuilder JavaJBuilder JavaAPIJBuilder Java LanguageJBuilder Java SwingJBuilder Java BeansJBuilder Java Beans UsageJBuilder Java Beans DevelopmentJBuilder JBCLJBuilder JDataStoreJBuilder JobsJBuilder LinuxJBuilder MacintoshJBuilder & MobileSetJBuilder MultiLingual AppsJBuilder Non-TechnicalJBuilder OpenToolsJBuilder Servlets (JSP)JBuilder StudentsJBuilder Team DevelopmentJBuilder Thirdparty ToolsJBuilder UpgradeJBuilder Installation InterBase Newsgroups----------------InterBaseInterBase Bug DiscussionInterBase GeneralInterBase IBConsoleInterBase OpenSourceInterBase ReplicationInterBase SQLInterBase ThirdpartyInterBase Installation Miscellaneous Borland Newsgroups----------------AppCenterAppServerEnteraVisiBroker  You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum You cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2006 phpBB Group SEO toolkit © 2004-2006 webmedic.