Re: [Lazarus] Scrolling text

2014-05-23 Thread Chris Crori
I use a stringgrid with the right properties set, you have no lines, no header, you can set the size easily to as much as you like. the only “trick” you have to use is that you always have to insert to the first line and not the last ;) Regards, Chris From: Daniel Erles Sent: Friday, May 23,

Re: [Lazarus] Scrolling text

2014-05-23 Thread Daniel Erles
Thks Vojtech, I'll try the Canvas.TextOut way. I hope it doesen't blink, or so. Let's see. 2014-05-23 10:36 GMT-04:00 Vojtěch Čihák : > Hi, > > > > I don't know any component. Basically you can do it with Canvas.TextOut(X, > Y, string);. Use timer and OnTimer event will render the text in positi

Re: [Lazarus] Scrolling text

2014-05-23 Thread Vojtěch Čihák
Hi,   I don't know any component. Basically you can do it with Canvas.TextOut(X, Y, string);. Use timer and OnTimer event will render the text in position x:=x-1. Better approach can be to create a "long" TBitmap with text and only copy the part of bitmap to canvas. Of course it depends on the l

[Lazarus] Scrolling text

2014-05-23 Thread Daniel Erles
Hello. I need to put in a form an horizontally scrolling text. Something like a StaticText (so I can set text style), but with the text scrolling horizontally, like a markee, just one line, one or two words. Anyone knows any control with this property, or how to do it programmatically in an easy w

Re: [Lazarus] [ANN] Brook 3.0.0 release!

2014-05-23 Thread Giuliano Colla
Il 19/05/2014 04:45, silvioprog ha scritto: [snip] We can add a new file, called "WHATS_NEW.txt", and it can be rewritten in all new versions, showing "what's new" in this released version. What do you think of this idea? If, instead of rewriting the WHATS_NEW.txt file each time, you just add

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-23 Thread Michael Schnell
(should we start a new mailing list thread ? ) Graeme, While doing the said modifications I could not continue to have function SystemSleep(Milliseconds: Integer):integer; Virtual; function CalibrateCallOverheads(Var TimeBase:TimebaseData) : Integer; Virtual; function Calibrat

Re: [Lazarus] How to program with time in milliseconds?

2014-05-23 Thread Michael Schnell
On 05/22/2014 10:32 AM, Michael Schnell wrote: Here I'd like to consider some suggestions (I of course can implement this locally and we can later discuss a release for the fpc RTL or whatever. - function GetHardwareTicks could be a class function so I wold not need to create an instance