Author Topic: Text( scrolling (Read 5859 times)

tifreak · « **on:** December 09, 2006, 04:28:00 am »

Well, I am going to attempt to create a program that will allow a person to scroll up and down to up to 200 items or so. Well, it will be dynamic enough to go to whatever, but that is besides the point.

My idea is to have it set a variable for the length of each word in a string, and start out at the top, of course, and watch where the cursor itself goes. It will then have to make sure it starts scrolling the text itself when it reaches the bottom/top.

I have a rough idea on how I want to do this, and I think I have all the checking systems thought out in my head... Does this seem like a good idea for any of you, and would you like to see this done?

If it works well enough, I would like to use it for the pokedex system for pokemon purple...

bfr · « **Reply #1 on:** December 09, 2006, 05:15:00 am »

Try to make it so that users can scroll down the the bottom of the list automatically and/or scroll 10 items at a time to make it so that scrolling through 200 items isn't too slow.

You can base your code off of the vertical scrollbar program from http://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/391/39190.html, if you want (this actually isn't the latest version of Text Tools, but www.ticalc.org still hasn't added the newer version to the archives...after about three weeks).

Here's a screenshot of the scrollbar program, so you can see if you are, or aren't, looking for something like this:

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DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #2 on:** December 09, 2006, 05:23:00 am »

will this be like rivereye's magic menu?

tifreak · « **Reply #3 on:** December 09, 2006, 05:25:00 am »

Well, this is on the graphscreen, so I dont think that will help me in any way.

I have it set up displaying wise, I just have to program in the getkey routines.

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #4 on:** December 09, 2006, 05:26:00 am »

I wonder how fast this will run. maybe you could make it scroll 7 items when it reach the bottom/top or something like this?

tifreak · « **Reply #5 on:** December 09, 2006, 05:32:00 am »

I am going to try it line by line first, and then maybe 9 items at a time.

rivereye · « **Reply #6 on:** December 09, 2006, 08:08:00 am »

Um, tifreak8x, my Magic Menu is on the graphscreen.

tifreak · « **Reply #7 on:** December 09, 2006, 09:00:00 am »

I got mine to work, though it needs the ability to clear the lines as it scrolls...

Quite the accomplishment, if I do say so myself...

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #8 on:** December 09, 2006, 09:29:00 am »

wow nice, i thought it would be slower, but there seems to be a lil glitch

Halifax · « **Reply #9 on:** December 09, 2006, 09:50:00 am »

to clear lines idk if this is possible but when displaying the text display some spaces after it. But like I said I don't know if that is possible with however your programming it

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #10 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:01:00 am »

hmm from what i hear don irc he is fixing it atm, apparently it run wicked sweet on ti 83+SE

rivereye · « **Reply #11 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:42:00 am »

hmm, I might implement this for my RPG.

tifreak · « **Reply #12 on:** December 09, 2006, 03:28:00 pm »

Got it to not have the garbage on the screen anymore... The only downside to doing it this way is that nothing can be to the side of the options, it has to all be under or above it...

elfprince13 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 09, 2006, 04:32:00 pm »

yay looking pwnsome

bfr · « **Reply #14 on:** December 09, 2006, 04:33:00 pm »

Nice work!

Author Topic: Text( scrolling (Read 5859 times)

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