Algodoo

The coding seems to be a little overly complex for such a task, although I have never tried to duplicate it with my own version. It's a useful feature, and if it can be simplified and made easy for others to implement, it could very well become popular and used by many.

Issues: 1. Movement of the control slider and the text is choppy. Maybe make movement smoother if possible. 2. When I move my cursor off the slider and then click on the text, the text suddenly jumps to a different position.

Overall, nice job.

Thanks for the feedback. I agree with your analysis but make no promises to fix anything. I suspect that somebody could make a purely mechanical scrolling textbox better than this. Rack and pinion drive comes to mind.

Rack and pinion??? LOL LOL LOL!!!

Spoken by a true ME!

Regarding lines of code, I've reduced the lines of code from 938 to 571 by eliminating code that allowed the scrolling textbox to run in design mode. The textbox is now more responsive. Since the scrolling textbox uses previously designed standard GUI components, only 33 additional lines of code were required for this scene. The _showText function in the display textbox does does almost all of the work.

Excellent improvement!

Thanks. I still haven't found the best way to predict the amount of text to put into the text box when the textScale and box size are fixed.

Quote: "I still haven't found the best way to predict the amount of text to put into the text box...."

That cannot be "predicted" because people often change there mind "on the fly". Maybe you can have the user click a button when they are finished entering their text, and then at that time you can format the text as needed for best viewing comfort. One other thing to consider (if you haven't already) is the fact that the text font can be changed by the user. That might complicate things even more for you!

Really cool!

Thanks.