by jayakumar (1 Submission)
Category: Graphics
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Sat 17th July 2004
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
(1 Votes)
Marquee the text
VBcoders
'Some initializations. We could have done this in the control's properties window.
Private Sub Form_Load()
sldrSpeed.Max = 100
sldrSpeed.Min = 1
sldrSpeed.Value = 1
Timer1.Enabled = False
Timer1.Interval = sldrSpeed.Value
Timer1.Enabled = False
End Sub
'Check the value of the checkbox control to see if we should animate the marquee
Private Sub chkAnimate_Click()
If chkAnimate.Value = 0 Then
Timer1.Enabled = False
sldrSpeed.Enabled = False
Else
Timer1.Enabled = True
sldrSpeed.Enabled = True
End If
End Sub
' Reset the timer to the value indicated by the slider control
Private Sub sldrSpeed_Scroll()
Timer1.Interval = sldrSpeed.Value
End Sub
Private Sub Timer1_Timer()
Static Count As Integer
'When the label goes off the left side of the form,
' reposition it onto the right side.
If (lblMarquee.Left + lblMarquee.Width) <= 0 Then
lblMarquee.Left = Form1.Width
'Use the status bar to show how often the marquee has cycled.
Count = Count + 1
StatusBar1.Panels(1).Text = CStr(Count)
End If
lblMarquee.Left = lblMarquee.Left - 100
End Sub