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Scrolling Text Marquee Control


The following article is a simple sample of a scrolling text marquee control for a Windows Forms application.

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The HTML MARQUEE Element creates a scrolling text marquee, but there is not an equivalent provided by Microsoft for desktop applications. The following is a simple sample of a scrolling text marquee control for a Windows Forms application.

The control uses a Timer object. For each timer tick, the text to scroll is updated by moving the current first character to the last character position. This causes the affect of the text continually scrolling. The text is written directly to the control's window using TextRenderer.DrawText.

To use the control, simply add the UserControl to a form and then during execution, such as in the form's constructor, set the UserControl's Text property to the text to scroll. If you are unfamiliar with the use of UserControls, then simply add the ScrollingTextControl.cs file in the attached file to the project, then build the project to ensure that Visual Studio sees it as a UserControl, then drag the ScrollingTextControl from the Toolbox onto the form.

The following is the UserControl.
public partial class ScrollingTextControl : UserControl
{
    Timer MarqueeTimer = new Timer();
    String CurrentText = "Scrolling text";
    String OurText;

    public ScrollingTextControl()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
        MarqueeTimer.Interval = 150;
        MarqueeTimer.Enabled = true;
        MarqueeTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(MarqueeUpdate);
    }

    public int Interval
    {
        get { return MarqueeTimer.Interval; }
        set { MarqueeTimer.Interval = value; }
    }

    public override String Text
    {
        get { return OurText; }
        set { OurText = value; CurrentText = OurText; }
    }

    private void ScrollingTextControl_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
    {
        TextRenderer.DrawText(e.Graphics, CurrentText, Font, ClientRectangle,
            SystemColors.ControlText);
    }

    void MarqueeUpdate(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        CurrentText = CurrentText.Substring(1) + CurrentText[0];
        Invalidate();
    }
}


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Infinite loop is occurring by Anusha On April 6, 2010
Sir,
In this code -
 
void MarqueeUpdate(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        CurrentText = CurrentText.Substring(1) + CurrentText[0];

        Invalidate();

    }

infinite loop is occurring and i have created this usercontrol but i am not able to import it on the form

Sir i have written this code--

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Data;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Marquee
{
public partial class ScrollingTextControl : UserControl
{


Timer MarqueeTimer = new Timer();
String CurrentText = "Hello";

String OurText;

public ScrollingTextControl()
{
InitializeComponent();
MarqueeTimer.Interval = 150;
MarqueeTimer.Enabled = true;
MarqueeTimer.Tick += new EventHandler(MarqueeUpdate);
}

public int Interval
{
get { return MarqueeTimer.Interval; }
set { MarqueeTimer.Interval = value; }
}

public override String Text
{
get { return OurText; }
set { OurText = value; CurrentText = OurText; }
}

private void ScrollingTextControl_Paint(object sender, PaintEventArgs e)
{
TextRenderer.DrawText(e.Graphics, CurrentText, Font, ClientRectangle,
SystemColors.ControlText);
}

void MarqueeUpdate(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
CurrentText = CurrentText.Substring(1) + CurrentText[0];
Invalidate();
}
private void ScrollingTextControl_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}
}
}


and

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace Marquee
{
public partial class Form1 : Form
{

public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();

}

private void Form1_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

}

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
ScrollingTextControl scr = new ScrollingTextControl();
scr.Text = "Hello";
scr.ForeColor = Color.Black;
this.Controls.Add(scr);
}

}
}

but some problem is occurring.
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Re: Infinite loop is occurring by Sam On April 6, 2010
I am sorry, but I am not familiar with "some problem". What is that? As far as I know, my sample does not do "some problem", whatever that is.
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hossein javidian by hossein On April 28, 2010
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