SplashTextOn and opt=32

[ob1kenob]

After turning a hair or two gray, I discovered that whenever I call SplashTextOn with opt containing 32, it does not support multiple lines via ControlSetText calls.

Adding this option to the help's example demonstrates this:

;; SMOOTH
$message = ""
SplashTextOn("TitleFoo", $message, -1, -1, -1, -1, 36, "")
For $x = 1 to 20
    $message = $message & $x & @LF
    ControlSetText("TitleFoo", "", "Static1", $message)
    sleep(100)
Next

Help alludes to this but doesn't exactly spell it out:

If the text is center and multiline, the ControlSetText will not override the number of lines created by the SplashTextOn.

For my particular application, I intended to fill the screen up with a message to call the help desk ASAP. I wanted to include a timer that counted down on a single line, very similar to the example, but I preferred the vertically centered option to increase the likelihood that it would be read. Updating it with repeated SplashTextOn calls will probably annoy people enough that they won't read the message

If anybody has any input on how to do this without reinventing the wheel, I would be very grateful for your input.

If this should be posted as a bug report, mods feel free to move.

[martin]

After turning a hair or two gray, I discovered that whenever I call SplashTextOn with opt containing 32, it does not support multiple lines via ControlSetText calls.

Adding this option to the help's example demonstrates this:

;; SMOOTH
 $message = ""
 SplashTextOn("TitleFoo", $message, -1, -1, -1, -1, 36, "")
 For $x = 1 to 20
     $message = $message & $x & @LF
     ControlSetText("TitleFoo", "", "Static1", $message)
     sleep(100)
 Next

Help alludes to this but doesn't exactly spell it out:

For my particular application, I intended to fill the screen up with a message to call the help desk ASAP. I wanted to include a timer that counted down on a single line, very similar to the example, but I preferred the vertically centered option to increase the likelihood that it would be read. Updating it with repeated SplashTextOn calls will probably annoy people enough that they won't read the message

If anybody has any input on how to do this without reinventing the wheel, I would be very grateful for your input.

If this should be posted as a bug report, mods feel free to move.

Maybe you could do something like this

$message = ""
SplashTextOn("TitleFoo", $message, -1, -1, -1, -1);, 36);, "")
$pre = ""

for $n = 0 to 9
    $pre &= @LF
Next

For $x = 1 to 20
    $message = $message & $x & @LF
    ControlSetText("TitleFoo", "", "Static1", $pre & $message)
    if BitAnd($x,1) then $pre = StringTrimLeft($pre,1)
    sleep(200)
Next