Scrolling Text in status bar

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i want text to scroll text in status bar but not able to do!!!actually im picking data from dadtabse n then showing in status bar in scrolling mode but im neither able to show text nor scroll it any suggestions!!

Posted 8-Jul-10 6:49am

saloni15

Updated 8-Jul-10 6:50am

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Sandeep Mewara 8-Jul-10 13:32pm

status bar as in what? Browser? Your application?

raju melveetilpurayil 8-Jul-10 13:48pm

if it in browser status bar, for security issue it block by browser itself

mcapatna 9-Jul-10 1:59am

Reason for my vote of 4
creative idea

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Solution 1

I don't know about the status bar in web page. But In windows forms the status bar itself is not sufficient enough to show up the messages. Say if I want to show the message "Process Completed", programmer may write this line - StatusBar.Text = "Process Completed".
But this will not show the message in the UI. What one need to do is add the control Lable to the StatusBar then assign the Text property of the Label - Lable1.Text = "Process Completed".

As far as scrolling text is concerned, you need to change the location (Control.Left Property) of label in the status bar periodically. But this should be done on another thread so that its location syncs with UI. You can do it with BackGroundThreadWorker provided in .Net 3.0. If you are using the older version, you need to do it in a thread created explicitly

Posted 9-Jul-10 0:18am

ameem85

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saloni15 · Accepted Answer · 2010-07-15T06:39:00

thanks for all replies!!!
i got the answer n its vry simple we can do it by removing first character of the string and add it in the end, continuing this makes string appear in a scrolling manner :-\
I used StringBuilder instead of string

Code Snippet:

on tick event of timer control i wrote following lines;

char ch = sb[1];
sb.remove(1,1);
sb.insert(sb.length,ch);
toolStripLabel.text = sb.tostring();

i declared sb object of System.text.StringBuilder in load function and assign it a text!!!

sb = new StringBuilder(toolStripStatusLabel1.Text + " ");

toolStripStatusLabel1 is the label over status strip

Did this in VS 2008