Text scrolling effect

 

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Work on text and field members. Will add a scrolling effect to both side of the text. Customizable.

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-- Author: http://go.to/alliax -- Date  : July 01 property sequenceLeft, sequenceRight property charLeft, charRight property lengthLeft, lengthRight property timerLeft, timerRight property textDisplay on getPropertyDescriptionList   vPDlist = [:]   setaProp vPDList, #charLeft, [#comment: "Left Fixed Characters", #format: #string, \     #default: "["]     setaProp vPDList, #sequenceLeft, [#comment: "Left Sequence to scroll", #format: #string, \     #default: "     ...."]     setaProp vPDList, #lengthLeft, [#comment: "Left Length", #format: #integer, \     #default: 13]   setaProp vPDList, #timerLeft, [#comment: "Left Speed (milliseconds)", #format: #integer, \     #default: 33]   setaProp vPDList, #textDisplay, [#comment: "Text to Display (if empty then use text of member)", #format: #string, \     #default: "Cool Text Here"]     setaProp vPDList, #charRight, [#comment: "Right Fixed Characters", #format: #string, \     #default: "]"]     setaProp vPDList, #sequenceRight, [#comment: "Right Sequence to scroll", #format: #string, \     #default: "     ...."]     setaProp vPDList, #lengthRight, [#comment: "Right Length", #format: #integer, \     #default: "13"]   setaProp vPDList, #timerRight, [#comment: "Right Speed (milliseconds)", #format: #integer, \     #default: 33]   return vPDList end getPropertyDescriptionList on getBehaviorDescription me   return \     "[EASY]" & RETURN & RETURN & \     "Use this behavior to make a nice scroll effect around a text. " & \     "Drag this behavior onto any sprite with a text or field member. " & \     "You can write something in the member, the initial value will be restored on endsprite." end getBehaviorDescription on getBehaviorTooltip me   return \     "[EASY] Use this behavior to make a nice scroll effect around a text. " & \     "Drag this behavior onto any sprite with a text or field member. " & \     "You can write something in the member, the initial value will be restored on endsprite." end getBehaviorTooltip property pntLeft, pntRight property pntTimerLeft, pntTimerRight property tempLeft, tempRight property my, oldText on beginsprite me   my = sprite(me.spritenum).member   oldText = my.text      -- fill in member with text   repeat with i = 1 to lengthLeft     tempLeft = tempLeft & textDisplay.char[random(textDisplay.length)]     end repeat     repeat with i = 1 to lengthRight     tempRight = tempRight & textDisplay.char[random(textDisplay.length)]   end repeat   my.text = charLeft & tempLeft & textDisplay & tempRight & charRight      if textDisplay = "" then textDisplay = oldText      pntLeft = 1   pntRight = 1   pntTimerLeft = the milliseconds + timerLeft   pntTimerRight = the milliseconds + timerRight end on endsprite me   my.text = oldText end on newtext me     if the milliseconds > pntTimerLeft then     tempLeft = my.text.char[2+charLeft.length..lengthLeft+charLeft.length] \ & sequenceLeft.char[pntLeft]          if pntLeft < sequenceLeft.length then       pntLeft = pntLeft + 1     else       pntLeft = 1     end if          pntTimerLeft = the milliseconds + timerLeft   end if      if the milliseconds > pntTimerRight then     tempRight = my.text.char[my.text.length-(lengthRight-2+charRight.length)..my.text.length-(lengthRight-lengthRight+charRight.length)] \ & sequenceRight.char[pntRight]          if pntRight < sequenceRight.length then       pntRight = pntRight + 1     else       pntRight = 1     end if          pntTimerRight = the milliseconds + timerRight   end if      my.text = charLeft & tempLeft & textDisplay & tempRight & charRight end on exitframe me     newtext end