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Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: March 19th, 2009, 4:39 pm
by Kambiz
Something came in my mind and because of curiosity I wrote it to see how it looks.

It's the demo of Real-Time Marquee Component as semi-transparent. And, in the background there is an instance of PicShow Component.

Screenshot of Semi-Transparent Marquee
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The attached file contains source and executable of the demo (written in Delphi 7). If you are going to compile the demo, you need the following components:


Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: March 19th, 2009, 6:14 pm
by HPW
Very interesting!
What would I need to do it in front of my own component/Bitmap?
Is the Real-Time Marquee Component changed or is it the release version 2.0 ?
Would be a nice option for the 2.0 neobook-plugin.

Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: March 19th, 2009, 6:24 pm
by HPW
The SlideShow.Exe from the demo rar only shows a black full-screen with the scrolling yellow marquee-text!
It also show no icons with the scrolling text.

I have not compiled it myself, since I have not installed all the used components.

Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: March 19th, 2009, 7:22 pm
by Kambiz
There is nothing new.

It's just a trick. I put the marquee on a borderless form with AlphaBlend set to 192.

I guess you didn't extract the files with directory structure.

Directory structure of Semi-Transparent Marquee
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Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: March 19th, 2009, 8:20 pm
by HPW
I guess you didn't extract the files with directory structure.


Yes, that was the reason.
Now it works and looks very good.
Impressive demo.

Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: June 30th, 2011, 5:45 am
by genyus00
hi u have some problem for register the findfilew components, its required TntClasses, TntSysUtils. how i can do..

Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: June 30th, 2011, 12:23 pm
by Kambiz
Remove FindFileW.pas from your package. This unit is TNT version of FindFile.pas.

Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: July 5th, 2011, 12:16 am
by genyus00
ok, thanks, I did work in my application, good supply, :D

Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: November 21st, 2013, 6:16 am
by profh
the attachment can't be extracted, corrupt header is found.
could you update it? thanks.

Re: Semi-Transparent Marquee

PostPosted: November 24th, 2013, 3:19 pm
by Kambiz
Sorry for the inconvenience but I don't have the original file.

When I moved the site from old host to the current one, I realized that the most of posts' attachments are corrupted. Sadly, I was also backing up the damaged files for the past several years.