[Gambas-user] Scrolling text in a textbox?
Charlie Ogier
charlie at cogier.com
Sun Dec 1 13:26:24 CET 2019
Hi Bruce,
Here are 2 more possible takes on this issue that may be of interest.
Charlie
On 01/12/2019 08:55, Bruce wrote:
> 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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