Ticker Style Scrolling Text
Ticker Style Scrolling Text
- Subject: Ticker Style Scrolling Text
- From: Erik Benoist <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 16:58:59 -0600
I am writing a small NSStatusItem which displays a NSString in the menu bar and supplies a series of NSMenuItems. As the text to be displayed is occasionally longer than would be permitted on the Menu Bar I would like to animate the text in a Stock Ticker style scrolling animation. Much like you'd see in iTunes when a song is too long to be displayed or how the modem connect NSStatusItem will scroll the words "dialing... authentication...". I tried to simply write text to the menu bar using a Timer writing one character at a time, but the result isn't smooth and due to spacing in between letters can be variable in how much it moves each iteration.
I suspect that a custom NSView is set to the NSStatusItem, but I am at a complete loss as to how to pull this off. Any examples of how to:
1. Properly animate the text.
2. Attach the resulting animation to the menu bar
would be greatly appreciated. I have googled around extensively and have yet to find a solid example or clue.
Thank you,
Erik Benoist_______________________________________________
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