<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Fabien,</div><div><br></div><div>Is it okay if I am the one interested in your solution (drawing area)?</div><div>:-)</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Gianluigi<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Il giorno mer 27 nov 2019 alle ore 16:31 Fabien Bodard <<a href="mailto:gambas.fr@gmail.com">gambas.fr@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Why a textbox ?... It can be a Drawingarea ?<br>
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Le mer. 27 nov. 2019 à 14:00, Gianluigi <<a href="mailto:bagonergi@gmail.com" target="_blank">bagonergi@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br>
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> Il giorno mer 27 nov 2019 alle ore 10:10 Bruce <<a href="mailto:adamnt42@gmail.com" target="_blank">adamnt42@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br>
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>> Is there a way or has anyone achieved a custom control that does the<br>
>> <marquee> ... blah blah blah ...</marquee> thing in a textbox?<br>
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>> I never thought I would want one, but stange how life pans out.<br>
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>> There is a constant, albeit sporadic, set of "updates" that affect one<br>
>> or more things that the user is "watching". So I thought maybe if we<br>
>> could scroll the last so many messages in a status bar type of thing.<br>
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>> Yes, we are back in the online "auction" game again :-[<br>
>> At least this time it's a bit slower.<br>
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>> Let's say for Christmas Day you are looking for a 2016 Langhorne Creek<br>
>> Shiraz. (In fact to qualify you need to be looking for 2 or 3 dozen.) We<br>
>> have about 8 wineries and around 80 outlets (retail, wholesale and<br>
>> cellar door) that provide that vintage. Also you are looking for one or<br>
>> two bottles of 2012 North Victorian Muscat, six or so bottles of<br>
>> something-or-other fizz and a bottle of sweet sherry for Aunt Jane.<br>
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>> The idea is you stick that order in and we do the "go searching".<br>
>> Originally I thought we could just come up with the "best fit/best<br>
>> value" answer. However it appears that<br>
>> a) this can take a bit of time.. up to about 10 minutes and<br>
>> b) if someone has got the Muscat on a two for one sale and another<br>
>> "sticky" is even better value then "best value" becomes a bit meaningless.<br>
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>> (Sheesh! This was supposed to be a retirement hobby project! AKA someone<br>
>> said (and I cant quote the exact words for fear of being censored but it<br>
>> was along the lines of...) GET OUT OF MY KITCHEN AND GO DO SOMETHING!)<br>
>> Well, that worked. I have spent the last three weeks demoing the very<br>
>> rudimentary prototype to more marketers and sales reps than I ever<br>
>> wished to meet in my life. The trouble is not only do they like it,<br>
>> they have got lots of "wonderful suggestions". Sadly, most of their<br>
>> ideas involve web-sites promoting their product. Which is the antithesis<br>
>> of what we are trying to do.<br>
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>> The original idea was based on your ordinary "wine club" sort of thing.<br>
>> We'd go and sign up a few bespoke wineries and they'd tell us what they<br>
>> were remaindering, i.e. the stuff they wanted to move so this years<br>
>> vintage could occupy the space released. We weren't going to "sell" it,<br>
>> we would just "list it". Any club member could log in and see who was<br>
>> trying to move what stuff. No fancies, no bling. They saw something<br>
>> they liked, click and get a phone number or email address to order some.<br>
>> No fee, no commission. Just that (ahem) I'd get a few bargains here and<br>
>> there. Well, that idea soon blew up!<br>
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>> So now we have a relatively decent sort of client-server thingo going<br>
>> that about 60 people are using sporadically and a bunch of marketers who<br>
>> want to put videos with surround sound stereo on it. AAAAARRRGH! This is<br>
>> just exactly what I am trying to avoid!<br>
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>> However the UI is crap. My fault.<br>
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>> So.<br>
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>> Instead of having to read the current stdout gibberish we print while<br>
>> searching through catalogues and websites for partial matches and<br>
>> possible goodies. Someone suggested that maybe we could do a slowly<br>
>> scrolling sort of marquee thing across the bottom. Most times it would<br>
>> say sort of "... still looking ..." and show some found items. OK I said<br>
>> ... BUT THERE WILL BE NO ADVERTISING!<br>
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>> (Well that was a long way to get to the point. Sorry folks!)<br>
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>> But any ideas?<br>
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>> tia<br>
>> bruce<br>
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>> ................. >>>>>> Best buys are here!!!!!! ...... Sign up<br>
>> now!!!!! ..... (French horn concerto)..... <bold><purple> DO IT NOW!<br>
>> <flash><br>
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>> B: Joanne, get out of my emails!<br>
>> J: pppppppp!!!<br>
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> I got lost in your speech, limited my answer to the title attaching a small test.<br>
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> Regards<br>
> Gianluigi<br>
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