teleprompter application- reverse text, smooth scrolling?

[Jim Ault]

ooops.  Need to fix one obvious line of the code ....


On 6/22/06 7:39 PM, "Jim Ault" <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Does any of this work for your app?
> 
> put the formattedheight of fld operatorText into gigantic
> set the height of fld operatorText to gigantic
> --full height
> ---->fld  operatorText border = 0, opaque = false
> --mask fld top, bottom
--- no vscroll bar needed
> 
> put 100 into origTop
> set the top of fld operatorText  to origTop
> 
> put 22 into scrollIncrm  --your pixelage may vary
> repeat forever
      get the top of fld operatorText ---<  fix
>    if the optionKey is down then
>       set the top of fld operatorText to it - scrollIncrm
>    else
>        set the top of fld operatorText to it + scrollIncrm
>    end if
> 
>   wait 20 milliseconds --adjust to taste
> 
>    if the shiftkey is down then wait 200 milliseconds --s l o w
>    if the shiftKey is down and the optionkey is down then
>       set the top of fld operatorText to origTop
>    end if  
>    if the top of fld operatorText  < (origTop - gigantic) then
>        benediction
>        exit repeat
>    end if
> end repeat
> 
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
> 
> 
> 
> On 6/22/06 3:35 PM, "Josh Mellicker" <josh at dvcreators.net> wrote:
> 
>> This script:
>> 
>>      repeat with v = 1 to 300
>>          set the vScroll of fld "operatorText" to v
>>      end repeat
>> 
>> scrolls a field up, but is too slow... any way to speed a loop up?
>> 
>> 
>> I have also tried
>> 
>> ON keepPrompting
>>      set the vScroll of fld "promptText" to the vScroll of fld
>> "promptText" + 1
>>      send keepPrompting to me in 0 milliseconds
>> END keepPrompting
>> 
>> which seems about as slow...
>> 
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> 
>> (these are not actual scripts, but tests... the app varies scroll
>> speed with a mouse scroll wheel)
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