Erik, If you haven't checked out Quartz Composer, do so. If my memory is correct, the QCTV sample code includes a news ticker that may be exactly what you are looking for.
regards, douglas On May 3, 2010, at 3:59 PM, Joachim Deelen wrote: > Hi Erik, > > I think one way to go would be CoreAnimation ... At least I'm using it in my > iTunes Menubar Controller Playwatch. > > CATextLayer, CAScrollLayer and CABasicAnimation are the Classes that might be > helpful. But CoreAnimation is rather complex. > > There might be ways to implement it with a "normal" NSView contained in a > NSScrollView. And yes, you would have to implement at least one custom NSView. > > regards, > Joachim > > http://www.aquarius-software.de/AQUARIUS-software_en/PlaywatchFeatures.html > > > Am 03.05.2010 um 00:58 schrieb Erik Benoist: > >> I am writing a small NSStatusItem which displays a NSString in the menu bar >> and supplies a series of NSMenuItems. As the text to be displayed is >> occasionally longer than would be permitted on the Menu Bar I would like to >> animate the text in a Stock Ticker style scrolling animation. Much like >> you'd see in iTunes when a song is too long to be displayed or how the modem >> connect NSStatusItem will scroll the words "dialing... authentication...". I >> tried to simply write text to the menu bar using a Timer writing one >> character at a time, but the result isn't smooth and due to spacing in >> between letters can be variable in how much it moves each iteration. >> >> I suspect that a custom NSView is set to the NSStatusItem, but I am at a >> complete loss as to how to pull this off. Any examples of how to: >> 1. Properly animate the text. >> 2. Attach the resulting animation to the menu bar >> >> would be greatly appreciated. I have googled around extensively and have yet >> to find a solid example or clue. >> >> Thank you, >> Erik Benoist_______________________________________________ >> >> Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) >> >> Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. >> Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com >> >> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: >> http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/cocoa-dev%40deelen.de >> >> This email sent to cocoa-...@deelen.de >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/douglas_welton%40earthlink.net > > This email sent to douglas_wel...@earthlink.net _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
