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Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on 23 Apr 2006 00:37:02 +0100

Hello!

My name is Torgeir (fuskoSCN), and this is my first posting here, I guess there will be some more postings by me rather soon

Beeing a demoscene-graphician, i have never written a single line of code in my life - but i hope to get the hang of Hollywood, so that im able to make some nice presentations. (the goal is to make a infochannel to my dentist-company).

hehe.i would like to say thanks for all the help this mailinglist can provide, and sorry about the dumb questions i may have

My first question is about scrolling text :

I have written the following code -
As you can see i would like to scroll text over the screen, but my problem is that it scrolls much too fast - even if i have used the lowest possible speed-number.

Is there a way to get the text to scroll more slowly ?

I have also noticed that the scrolling speed is changing.. it scrolls faster in the start and in the end (when part of the word "scrolltext" is outside the screen) . Is it possible to get a same speed all the way ?

Best regards

Torgeir - aka - FuskoSCN

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:46:29 +0200

Hello!

My name is Torgeir (fuskoSCN), and this is my first posting here, I guess there will be some more postings by me rather soon

Beeing a demoscene-graphician, i have never written a single line of code in my life - but i hope to get the hang of Hollywood, so that im able to make some nice presentations. (the goal is to make a infochannel to my dentist-company).

hehe.i would like to say thanks for all the help this mailinglist can provide, and sorry about the dumb questions i may have

My first question is about scrolling text :

I have written the following code -

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SetFontcolor(#white)
SetFont("abaddon.font",80)
SetFontStyle(#antialias)
CreateTextObject(1,"scrolltext")
MoveTextObject(1,#rightout,#bottom,#leftout,#bottom,1)

, as you can see i would like to scroll text over the screen, but my problem is that it scrolls much too fast - even if i have used the lowest possible speed-number.

Is there a way to get the text to scroll more slowly ?

Yes. You have to scroll the text on your own. First, convert the text object to a sprite:
And then scroll it using code like this:
You can adjust the speed of the scroller by modifying the "maxfps" variable. If the scroller is too slow even with high fps, try to increase the step variable to -2, -3, -4...