Hello world! I'm talking about how to make a label scroll across the form

on the timer event.

I have

lblSale and I have a timer.

You want to set enable to true.

Find the interval.

To a number that works.

Event is the tick event.

of the timer

And we have code there.

The label's location,

if it were over here,

X would be 0.

If it were

minus

the width of the label.

It would be completely off the screen [form] on the left.

If the

X value

was the same as the width of the form,

It would be all the way off on the right.

What we want to do

is

at form load

put it all the way off on the right.

Every time the timer goes off,

We move it over 1 [to the left].

So we'll start seeing the words one at a time,

Reading

From left to right.

The way we do in English.

It moves across, and when it gets all the way off on the left,

When the X value

is

When the X value

is 0

Minus the width of the label.

or -the width of the label.

So let's look at our code and see what we have here. In form load.

I position the label

Using the location,

The width of the form,

for the X value,

And exactly where it is

For the Y value.

Just in case I hadn't done it in my properties window you want to make sure the timer is enabled,

And interval is set to 20.

On the timer's tick event,

I get y position is its current location.

And x position

is

The new location:

Moving it 1 to the left.

If the label.

Is less than 0 -

the widht of the label, that means it's moved off on the left so I want to set it's X position

To put it all the way off on the right.

And then I set its new location.

Let's run it: it starts on the right and scrolls across.

to the left.

At this point its X location is 0.

And it goes all the way off [on the left]

But that starts over again on the right.

That's it!