How to make automatically scrolling text

[jaminben]

I'm not sure if I can explain what I'm after but I'll have a go anyway

What I'm looking for is text to scroll from left to right within a small selectable item widget. I have text scrolling accross the top of the screen but when I reduce the width of that widget it stops scrolling and ends up looking like "Termin.....".

I've attached an image which explains what I'm doing a bit better than I can with words. Well hopefully it will

Scrolling text example one: Text moves from left to right as it should but only accross the full width of the screen.

Scrolling text example two: Item widget has been reduced in width and now stops scrolling.

I hope that makes sense.

Regards

Ben

[gplasky]

I know enough about Studio to be dangerous. But take a look at this:


Might not be too much help but download an old STV called Meekell. If you load it up on the right side you'll see the Upcoming Recordings list. Any show with a long title (more the 25) will scroll to the left. There may be better ways to do it now with the updates to Studio since this was created but it's a start.

Gerry

[jaminben]

Sweet, Thanks Gerry

I have got it working now using the RSS feed as a template, all I have to do now is strip out all the rss settings and replace them with my own.
It doesn't however work as I had hoped so I will checkout that STV to see if that works better.

Cheers

Ben

[jaminben]

Ok, so I have my text scrolling within a smaller panel widget which was my probelm from above but because the text is longer than the panel widget it now cuts the end off with "...".
What I'm looking for is an infinate text width which isn't affected by the parent panel widget, can this be done?
I have a funny feeling it cannot as all the examples I've looked at have the same issue which is that text is limited to the width of the parent widget. I know I can have the text scale to be smaller so that it fits within the panel but that doesn't look too good.

Hopefully I've explained myself correctly and I've also attached an image showing what I mean.

I've got my fingers crossed hoping someone has some good news for me and can fix this or suggest a method of fixing it.

Regards

Ben

[gplasky]

The code from the Meekell STV will show the same thing when it is not in focus. Text with .... But when it is focused the text begins scrolling imediately.
See below. The text is actually scrolling constantly when focused.





Can you set it to scroll whether it is focused or not? I got used to the fact that I couldn't see the whole title unless I scrolled to it so that's not such a bad thing, is it?

Gerry

[jaminben]

Could you send me that import as when I tried it wasn't working (link was down). Currently if it doesn't have focus then it doesn't scroll which is what I think your saying you prefer.

The link I'm trying is http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/down...do=file&id=143

[gplasky]

I forgot I had to dig it out of my archives. Get it from here:
Meekell 6.1 zip

Gerry

[jaminben]

Hmmm, That is a bit wierd as its not actually scrolling but animating. Its also not animating the full lengh of the text just the last bit. Its not a bad skin though.

Thanks for the tip Gerry but I'll hold out for a bit and see if theirs any other way to do it.

Cheers

Ben

[gplasky]

Like I said I know enough to be dangerous.

It just so happens I was looking at this and trying to update for the newer versions and better ways of doing some of it. I've got a couple ideas that might add to the cool factor if I can get up to speed on this and Studio.

Gerry

[jaminben]

Sounds interesting, I'll keep an eye out.

[jaminben]

Anyone else got any ideas how I can have unlimited horizontal scrolling text without being limited by the size of the parent widget?

[jaminben]

Anyone?? I'm guessing it can't be done Or its so obvious that nobody can be bothered to reply!! If it can be done a simple reply like "Look Harder" will do.