Re: Auto-scrolling text

FROM : Ryan Z. Hale
DATE : Mon Nov 18 20:43:01 2002

try www.cocoadevcentral.com

They have what you're looking for.
On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 07:08  PM, Brian Bergstrand wrote:

> Anyone have any examples of auto-scrolling text using NSTextView? Kind
> of like what you see in about boxes all of the time.
>
> Basically you'd have to get the size of the string as drawn on screen
> in the current font, figure out the pagination and wrapping in the
> view and then calculate how much text is being displayed and how much
> needs to be displayed.
>
> That's a lot easier said than done, and the online doc is not much
> help. Plus, how do you restart the display from the beginning of the
> text, but about two thirds of the way down in the view (so you get the
> effect of continuously scrolling text)?
>
> What I really want is something just like PGP 8.0 about box.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Brian Bergstrand
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