[Gambas-user] Scrolling text in a textbox?

Gianluigi bagonergi at gmail.com
Thu Nov 28 09:21:36 CET 2019


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>
ha scritto:

> Why a textbox ?... It can be a Drawingarea ?
>
> Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 14:00, Gianluigi <bagonergi at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> >
> >
> > Il giorno mer 27 nov 2019 alle ore 10:10 Bruce <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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> Fabien Bodard
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