From time to time, I see people asking about how to make marquee text. I recently wrote a marquee class I figured I would share, in case anyone finds this useful.
Heres The Class:
Public Class Marquee
Private _CurrentText As String = "Paul's Custom Marquee"
Private _text As String = "Paul's Custom Marquee"
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Intent: To teach the user how to create a control that scrolls text at an adjustable speed across the control.What you'll need:Visual Studio.NET (2002 or 2003) - The version I built this with is 200325 Minutes of free timeI don't remember what prompted me to create this control, except that I was sitting at my desk one day and thought to myself?
1. First open the Visual Studio IDE.
2. Select 'New Project'.
3. From the project languages, select 'Visual Basic'.
4. From the project types, select 'Windows Control Library'.
5.Once the initial project has finished loading there's a couple of things that you may want to do first. The first one being, change the control name to something that means something. "UserControl1" just won't do, so in the 'Solution Explorer' right click on the "UserControl1.vb" file and click 'Rename'. Without removing the '.vb' file extension, type the name of the control. In this case lets call it 'ScrollingMarquee.vb'.
6. Now back to the control design area. Add a timer control to your project from the toolbox. Set the enabled property to 'True' and set the interval to 100. Right click on the control area (the actual control itself, not the timer) and click on 'View Code'. This will take you to the code area of project.
7. Enter the code as is written displayed below.
Code:Imports System.DrawingImports System.Drawing.Drawing2DImports System.ComponentModel
Public Class ScrollingMarque Inherits System.Windows.Forms.UserControl
#Region " Windows Form Designer generated code "
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Just want to make sure that each time we move the control or resize it,'it re-renders correctly.Invalidate()End SubEnd Class8.Next select 'Build -> Build ScrollingMarquee'.9. Once you have any bugs worked out (there shouldn't be any, but in case there are), you can change the build mode to release and rebuild the control for use in your projects.
i'v found several scrolling text / marque examples on the net .. i'v tested a lot of them .. but some some reason all of them are not smooth .. text is 'blinking' .. anyone knows a good marque control? a paid one is also good (withing budget ) .. i really tried alot of them..
View 3 RepliesI have been searching the form for a way to scroll text in a label control kinda like a marquee. I found the following
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I've got a form that has a ProgressBar on it. The Style is set to Marquee. In the Form.Shown event handler, I call BackgroundWorker. RunWorkerAsync(). In the old version, while this is occurring in the background, the ProgressBar is scrolling, which is exactly what I want.I copied over not only the code from within the file (i.e., the logic code) but also the code from the designer file. So, from what I can tell, there should be NOTHING different between the two files. However, in the new version, the marquee scroll doesn't occur.
View 6 RepliesIs it possible to have the title bar of your application be a marquee? The only way I know of to make a marquee currently is this:
Public Class Form1
Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick
Label1.Left = Label1.Left - 10
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All that does is make "Label1" move from right to left across the form.. is having a marquee in the title bar possible?
I wanted a ProgressBarStyle.Marquee animation while a query is running. I don't want the user to think the application is locked up. it's really not progress just MarqueeAnimation. the issue I have is it's not running as a thread or in the background.
Private Sub ButtonExcute_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles ButtonExcute.Click
ProgressBar1.Style = ProgressBarStyle.Marquee
ProgressBar1.MarqueeAnimationSpeed = 60
ProgressBar1.Refresh()
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How to add scroll delay in this coding for marquee ? It will not scroll till the last character, it will disappear when first character in literal1 will touch the left side ... i want it will scroll till last ..character
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I'm coding in VB.Net 2010. What's the most efficient way to create a horizontal scroller (i.e., marquee)? I've found some dead threads and ways to do it in older versions of VB, but I'm not finding anything particularly recent....
View 4 RepliesThere is a question that I have from YEARS after working with DotNetBar Components that How do you set the Marquee style of a normal progress bar on the circular one? The circular progress bar from DotNetBar, i want to be clear.There is no "Style" Property and now I really need to know it for a project I'm doing now
View 3 RepliesI want to create a custom, good looking, marquee progressbar for my splash screen. I found a good desgin and i am trying to duplicate it, but i am not very good with System.Drawing. I would like to create the following progressbar[url]...
View 2 RepliesI was wondering if there was a way to get the marquee of a progress bar to change direction when the marquee gets to the end of the progress bar and vice versahere is a small diagram to show you what i mean[---][*--][-*-][--*][-*-][*--][---] = progress bar* = marquee
View 1 RepliesIs there a way to make a textbox into a scrolling marquee? It would need to update it's information every time it ran out of text to display.
View 16 RepliesI am successfully trying to send an email message through my windows form. The only problem is when i click the button to send mail it is not showing the prograssbar. It shows after a delay or sometimes doesn't show at all.Is it due to the event handler? I have no clue and all i need to first show is the progressbar when the send button is clicked and then when sending message is successful or unsuccessful then hide progressbar and display the Txtmessage.text.
Public Sub SendEmail()
ProgressBar1.Visible = True
Dim client As New SmtpClient()
Dim sendTo As New MailAddress(To.Text)
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I need help with the progress bar control. I can only get it to show or display in the Marquee mode, even though I have tried setting it to Continuous and Blocks. I have tried setting it programmatically at run time and in the IDE properties. I get the Marquee style every time no matter what I do. What am I missing here? I must be doing something wrong somewhere!Paul Abell
View 4 RepliesI need to make a marquee control in vb.net, but I need it to run completely in a different thread, but I can't update the UI of the control outside the main thread.
View 4 Repliesi have a standard login form that allows the user to enter username and password and click OK or cancel. I have a progress bar called pbLaunch with the visible property set to false and the animation set to marquee. when the user clicks OK i would like to run a separate thread called bgwProgress that makes the progress bar visible and fires up the marquee just to show that something is happening while form1 loads up.....so far i'm stuckn the ok click event i have the following:
Try
Dim bgwProgress As New System.ComponentModel.BackgroundWorker
bgwProgress.WorkerSupportsCancellation = True
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I have the following sub that displays the progress (the Animation speed is 50 - but I've tried with other values)
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I should mention that the control is created dynamically and placed on a dynamically created TabPage that in turn is added to the main tab control that is on the static form (Form1) that is refreshed - but I do believe that 'Refresh' should ripple though to all sub controls?
I'm using Windows XP and VB.net 2005. I've search for information on how to use the BackgroundWorker to display a ProgressBar during a process and thought I had it correct, but appearently I don't - the bar never shows, much less moves. My goal is to have a Marquee Style progress bar display while my code is looping thru a query result populating a datatable that a DataGridView is binded. Here is my code.
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How can I make the Marquee style progress bar go faster.
View 2 RepliesI'm writing a program that (amongst other things) provides an IDE-like environment for the user where they can select one or more objects with a rectangualr selection tool.All selections will be a simple rectangle, and all selectable objects will be simple rectangles as well.I already have the code (VB.Net) to create the rubber-banding effect visually - what I need is an efficient algorithm that will tell me what objects have at least a portion of their area within the final selection rectangle.
View 3 RepliesI'm using Microsoft's Portable VB. so far I'm doing my work with the help of my friends. I'm making a project and for that I want to wheter I can have an image as a marquee. If yes then how to make it work like that or what is the coding for it?
View 2 RepliesI have created a listbox with several items that when a button is clicked, it opens up the application that uses that file and then starts the file. this all works fine, but I wanted to know if there is a way to show a marquee-type progress bar for each process as it's being opened?
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
If CheckedListBox1.SelectedItem = "ITEM ONE" Then
Process.Start("c:\DIRECTORY\ITEMONE.exe")
End If
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I have an SQL database, and 50 text files, and Visual Basic 2010 Premimum,I need to find a specific line of text in the text files and then take the next 37 lines of text and save them in my database. I need advice as to point me in the right direction
View 2 RepliesI am creating a Pizza Order program as part of my coursework college. why something isn't working.
Quote:
lblTotal.Text = Val(Form2.lblPizzaTotal.Text) + Val(Form3.lblDrinksTotal.Text)
The code above is what I am using to add the Value of Label 1 (Pizza Total) and Label 2 (Drinks Total), however it seems that in the final total it doesn't appear to add the value of Label 2.
On the main form of my application, I have a Rich Text Box which is where the user will be entering information. The text is black. then, i have a button which calls the dialogue "Notes" A dialogue appears, with a rich text box. the user should then be able to enter text into the box, click "OK", and the text entered into the Notes dialogue be inserted to the rich text box on the main form -- with the font colour "Red". The rest of the text in the main rich text box on the main form should remain black.
View 2 Repliesmake the text in a text box into a text file that auto-creates in a specific?
View 4 RepliesIm trying to make a search bar that has a Go button now heres where it gets diffcuilt How do i make this search bar take the text in the the text bar and add it into a pre defined weblink and replace a bit of text with that word in the search bar so the user types into the text bar for example they type in NAME HERE so when you click go it taxt for instance [URL] now how could i make it so when you hit the GO button that it takes the text in the textbox and and replaced REPLACE TEXT in the pre defined address and put NAME HERE into the address and then load it up with a web browser and also how would i make it open up with the web browser that the person is useing (since lods of people use diffrent web browsers)
View 3 Repliesmake the text in a text box into a text file that auto-creates in a specific?
View 4 RepliesI'm building a program in which it asks for your name and age and determines a ticket price based upon these details. I want it to show the person's name, then their age, (jump down a line) then their ticket price, and then it jumps down a line to show the next person's name, age and ticket price. Issue is, when it's meant to jump down to show the next person, it just completely deletes the last person's details.I'm using this line of code:
TxtFareShow.Text = (Name & Age & vbCrLf & Price) & vbCrLf
How do I fix this?