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Thread: Is there a control to scroll text like a stock ticker?

Lawrence Reid
Posts: 63

Is there a control to scroll text like a stock ticker? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 16 Aug 07 11:07 AM

We need a way to display announcements. A stock ticker type of display has been requested.

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Ryan Farley
Posts: 2265

Re: Is there a control to scroll text like a stock ticker? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 16 Aug 07 11:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lawrence Reid

We need a way to display announcements. A stock ticker type of display has been requested.

It's easy enough to create your own.

Drop a Timer on a Form
Set the timer to Enabled and the interval to something like 175 (you can make this a higher number to scroll the text slower)
Add a Label that will be the ticker (and contain the ticker text)

For the Timer event of the Timer control, add the following code (assuming your ticker label is named Label1)

Sub Timer1Timer(Sender)

    If (Label1.Width + Label1.Left) > 0 Then
        Label1.Left = Label1.Left - CInt(Form.Width / 15)
    Else
        Label1.Left = Form.Width
    End If
End Sub

That should do it. Have fun.

-Ryan

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Lawrence Reid
Posts: 63

Re: Is there a control to scroll text like a stock ticker? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 16 Aug 07 12:03 PM

Thanks Ryan. This looks simple enough.

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Ian Fitzpatrick
Posts: 146

Re: Is there a control to scroll text like a stock ticker? Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 16 Aug 07 2:45 PM

Thanks Ryan!

I don't "need" to use this, but it's so simple I might offer to implement something that uses this idea.

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