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Is there a way to make a COMMENT or TEXT display like a scrolling marquee? If not, would it be difficult to implement that in a future version?
Currently for the weather section of my desktopinfo I have it display a link if there is a weather alert for my area, but I would like to be able to have the alert "text" scroll across like a ticker or marquee (and a bonus make it a hyperlink I can click).
If anyone is interested, I can post the code for my weather section for USA based weather (I'm still tweaking it every so often).
interesting idea....Is there a way to make a COMMENT or TEXT display like a scrolling marquee? If not, would it be difficult to implement that in a future version?
Currently for the weather section of my desktopinfo I have it display a link if there is a weather alert for my area, but I would like to be able to have the alert "text" scroll across like a ticker or marquee (and a bonus make it a hyperlink I can click).
If anyone is interested, I can post the code for my weather section for USA based weather (I'm still tweaking it every so often).
Yes please. Thanks
I had a look at this today. It's do-able but because the timing only has a granularity of seconds, it's not a very smooth scroll.
In v3.17 you'll be able to do something like this:
# initialise the variable
begin-onload
set mx={{%width%-100}}
end-onload
# update the variable every cycle (every second)
set mx={{%mx%-10}}
if=value1:%mx%, comp:lt, value2:0
set mx={{%width%-100}}
# my marquee
COMMENT=x:%mx%, y:0, text:Desktop Info by Glenn Delahoy
This only works with absolute positioning.
