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Hi,

Im try to play a crawl that runs for ever with VB6 & API.

I need to add new content (text data) at the end of the crawl

Actualy is a Sports Match results, that never ends, and new data comes every 10 seconds.

So how can I add new text at the end, and how can I remove oldets entry from the begining of the crawl?

Is any sample code and a logic of add/remove content, because the manual has a simple crawl/roll sample?

Thanks in advance for your help

Elias

Hi Elias,

I can probably fic you up with an example but I can only send it tonight when I get home.

But to quickly explain the principle. There are two ways that you could do this. You could create a scenegroup and add new scenes to that scenegroup, but I never got that working properly.

So what I've been using is a single scene which has 5 textobjects which I animate across the screen and I simply replace the contents of the textboxes. This way I also get more control over the crawl.

Kenneth

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Dear Kenneth,

thanks for your answer.

Im wating for your example code.

I'll buy you a beer for your valueable help.

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Elias,

Take a look at this sample example:

https://rossvideo.centraldesktop.com/p/eAAAAAAAABXGAAAAAGNaWO4

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@Brian: Thanks

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Hi Elias,

I haven't forgotten about you, I just have to clean up the code to make it a bit more readable and add some comments in English.

Hold tight :-)

Kenneth

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Hi Elias,

You can find a demo here: http://pastelink.me/dl/23c10b

I should mention that I didn't had the chance to test it as my XPressions are in production somewhere else and I only have my BlueBox-dongle with me for now.

There's also no XPression project included but that's easy to make, just create a project, add a scene called "Crawl", add 5 textobjects called "Text1" through "Text5" and also add 5 animation controllers called "AnimationController1" through "AnimationController5" and I think it should work, but don't shoot me if it doesn't ;-)

Good luck!

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It works.

Thanks man.

Your rock!!

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Oh it does? Wow, sometimes I even surprise myself :-)

One more remark about the code I sent you. I just realized that I update the contents of the textfield at the moment it went off the screen. So if you have long messages, it could take a while before that textfield goes back into the crawl. So it might be better to change the update to the moment before you start the animation. Just to be sure to have the latest information.

Good luck with your project!

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Elias,

You have an example of how you solved the crawl using API xpression?

regards

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Hi Marcelo,

Yes I have. Do you familiar with VisulBasic 6?

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ok then. give me a day to extract the ContinuedCrawl code. I will inform you

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thank you so much !

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Here is the sample (Many thanks to Kenneth for his valuable help)

the zip includes VB6 code & xpp project

Load the project with xpression before run the vb code.

https://www.wetransfer.com/downloads/dc4b7722b87bdd2ab8946c90b868107920131112141519/5db6b713a7464b43e5bac2589c08576b20131112141519/2fc847

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Thank you, Kenneth and Elias, for your contribution in the forum.

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Elias,

Take a look at this sample example:

https://rossvideo.centraldesktop.com/p/eAAAAAAAABXGAAAAAGNaWO4

Could you share this again pls...
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