[Gambas-user] Scrolling text in a textbox?

[Bruce]

Thank you Gialuigi! That was exactly what I was after. Slick and elegant,

@Fabien. Only because I was looking for a quick solution,

(The long story continues here, So you can ignore the rest if you so 
choose.)

Just arrived back from a road trip of the western and central wineries 
of Victoria. Some big ones and a lot of smaller producers. Most seem to 
be quite interested in what we are envisioning.  However it is a hard 
job to convince some of them that this is not another advertising web site.
In fact, at the moment it is anything but a website. The basic pitch is 
this:
"How do you clear your remnants? ... Well suppose that you could put 
their listing on an internet system at no cost - no cost.
What we are building is a system that will list your remnant wines to a 
select list of buyers, yes just like a wine club. But with a slight twist!
We are not offering to buy your remnants, just list them.
Our users are of a type that are usually searching for orders of, say, 3 
dozen bottles.  In general they are sick and tired of looking through 
tens of websites, dozens of junk mail in the hope they will find a 
"bargain".
What we propose is to do the searching for them.
Now I'm not going to .....

etc etc etc.

But it seems that there is an interest, possibly a larger interest than 
I thought. (and I also thought that I had retired!)

Getting back to why I'm not allowed in the kitchen. The original 
"thinky" about the concept took about two days. The initial, working, 
prototype another three. PRAISE BE TO GAMBAS!

It's still very early days but this seems to be a bigger winner than the 
horse auctions.... and I get a benefit of (ahem) sampling some very good 
and uncommonly available (ahem) agricultural produce. ... ... hic!

Anyway guys, thanks for the responses. All appreciated.

bw
]b



On 28/11/19 6:51 pm, Gianluigi wrote:
> Hi Fabien,
> 
> Is it okay if I am the one interested in your solution (drawing area)?
> :-)
> 
> Regards
> Gianluigi
> 
> Il giorno mer 27 nov 2019 alle ore 16:31 Fabien Bodard 
> <gambas.fr at gmail.com <mailto:gambas.fr at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
> 
>     Why a textbox ?... It can be a Drawingarea ?
> 
>     Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 14:00, Gianluigi <bagonergi at gmail.com
>     <mailto:bagonergi at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Il giorno mer 27 nov 2019 alle ore 10:10 Bruce
>     <adamnt42 at gmail.com <mailto:adamnt42 at gmail.com>> ha scritto:
>      >>
>      >> Is there a way or has anyone achieved a custom control that does the
>      >> <marquee> ... blah blah blah ...</marquee> thing in a textbox?
>      >>
>      >> I never thought I would want one, but stange how life pans out.
>      >>
>      >> There is a constant, albeit sporadic, set of "updates" that
>     affect one
>      >> or more things that the user is "watching". So I thought maybe if we
>      >> could scroll the last so many messages in a status bar type of
>     thing.
>      >>
>      >> Yes, we are back in the online "auction" game again :-[
>      >> At least this time it's a bit slower.
>      >>
>      >> Let's say for Christmas Day you are looking for a 2016 Langhorne
>     Creek
>      >> Shiraz. (In fact to qualify you need to be looking for 2 or 3
>     dozen.) We
>      >> have about 8 wineries and around 80 outlets (retail, wholesale and
>      >> cellar door) that provide that vintage. Also you are looking for
>     one or
>      >> two bottles of 2012 North Victorian Muscat, six or so bottles of
>      >> something-or-other fizz and a bottle of sweet  sherry for Aunt Jane.
>      >>
>      >> The idea is you stick that order in and we do the "go searching".
>      >> Originally I thought we could just come up with the "best fit/best
>      >> value" answer. However it appears that
>      >> a) this can take a bit of time.. up to about 10 minutes and
>      >> b) if someone has got the Muscat on a two for one sale and another
>      >> "sticky" is even better value then "best value" becomes a bit
>     meaningless.
>      >>
>      >> (Sheesh! This was supposed to be a retirement hobby project! AKA
>     someone
>      >> said (and I cant quote the exact words for fear of being
>     censored but it
>      >> was along the lines of...) GET OUT OF MY KITCHEN AND GO DO
>     SOMETHING!)
>      >> Well, that worked.   I have spent the last three weeks demoing
>     the very
>      >> rudimentary prototype to more marketers and sales reps than I ever
>      >> wished to meet in my life.  The trouble is not only do they like it,
>      >> they have got lots of "wonderful suggestions". Sadly, most of their
>      >> ideas involve web-sites promoting their product. Which is the
>     antithesis
>      >> of what we are trying to do.
>      >>
>      >> The original idea was based on your ordinary "wine club" sort of
>     thing.
>      >> We'd go and sign up a few bespoke wineries and they'd tell us
>     what they
>      >> were remaindering, i.e. the stuff they wanted to move so this years
>      >> vintage could occupy the space released. We weren't going to
>     "sell" it,
>      >> we would just "list it". Any club member could log in and see
>     who was
>      >> trying to move what stuff.  No fancies, no bling.  They saw
>     something
>      >> they liked, click and get a phone number or email address to
>     order some.
>      >> No fee, no commission. Just that (ahem) I'd get a few bargains
>     here and
>      >> there. Well, that idea soon blew up!
>      >>
>      >> So now we have a relatively decent sort of client-server thingo
>     going
>      >> that about 60 people are using sporadically and a bunch of
>     marketers who
>      >> want to put videos with surround sound stereo on it. AAAAARRRGH!
>     This is
>      >> just exactly what I am trying to avoid!
>      >>
>      >> However the UI is crap. My fault.
>      >>
>      >> So.
>      >>
>      >> Instead of having to read the current stdout gibberish we print
>     while
>      >> searching through catalogues and websites for partial matches and
>      >> possible goodies. Someone suggested that maybe we could do a slowly
>      >> scrolling sort of marquee thing across the bottom. Most times it
>     would
>      >> say sort of "... still looking ..." and show some found items.
>     OK I said
>      >> ... BUT THERE WILL BE NO ADVERTISING!
>      >>
>      >> (Well that was a long way to get to the point. Sorry folks!)
>      >>
>      >> But any ideas?
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> tia
>      >> bruce
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> .................  >>>>>> Best buys are here!!!!!! ...... Sign up
>      >> now!!!!! ..... (French horn concerto).....   <bold><purple> DO
>     IT NOW!
>      >> <flash>
>      >>
>      >> B: Joanne, get out of my emails!
>      >> J: pppppppp!!!
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > I got lost in your speech, limited my answer to the title
>     attaching a small test.
>      >
>      > Regards
>      > Gianluigi
>      >
>      >
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