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• Jeff Bradshaw

  Posted on May 29, 2011 (permalink)

  Can I use the rotator to create a ticker on a window's program? (Ticker like the ticker on CNN at the bottom of the screen)
  
  TIA - Jeff.

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• Stefan Stefan

  Posted on Jun 1, 2011 (permalink)

  Hi Jeff,
  
  Thank you for writing.
  
  You you can use RadRotator as a ticker to scroll text. Here are a few steps that you need to take to accomplish this behavior:
  

  • Dock the control to bottom and size it accordingly;
  • Add the desired text as RadLabelElements;
  • Change the LocationAnimation to (1,0) to move the items from right to left and to (-1,0) for left to right;
  • Set the desired interval between the news;
  • Start the rotator;

  Here is a sample implementation:
  

  public Form1()

  {

      InitializeComponent();

   

      radRotator1.LocationAnimation = new SizeF(1, 0);

      radRotator1.AnimationFrames = 30;

      radRotator1.Interval = 5000;

   

      RadLabelElement news1 = new RadLabelElement();

      news1.Text = "First news";

      RadLabelElement news2 = new RadLabelElement();

      news2.Text = "Second news";

      RadLabelElement news3 = new RadLabelElement();

      news3.Text = "Third news";

      RadLabelElement news4 = new RadLabelElement();

      news4.Text = "Forth news";

   

      radRotator1.Items.Add(news1);

      radRotator1.Items.Add(news2);

      radRotator1.Items.Add(news3);

      radRotator1.Items.Add(news4);

   

      radRotator1.Start();

       

      //if you want to hide the border, uncomment the following line

      //((BorderPrimitive)radRotator1.RotatorElement.Children[1]).Visibility = Telerik.WinControls.ElementVisibility.Collapsed;

  }

  
  I hope that the provided information addresses your question. Should you have any other questions, do not hesitate to contact us.
   

  Regards,
  Stefan
  the Telerik team

  Q1’11 SP1 of RadControls for WinForms is available for download; also available is the Q2'11 Roadmap for Telerik Windows Forms controls.

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