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Data Scrolling From Right To Left On Status bar

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Dear Team,

Greetings for the day,

I have an requirement that, data should scroll from right to left.

Question: In the AX Status bar i have free space. in that i want to scroll the data from right to left.

> I have a customized form which is maintained by admin rights only.

> in the above customized form a have a text(String) field, i want this text to be scroll on status bar from right to left!

I don't know whether it is possible or not, if possible suggest me how to do that.

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Suresh

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blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/.../display-customizable-help-or-status-text-in-the-status-line

You may use something like a setTimeOut() for calling the above, to repetitively call and simulate "text movement" by rearranging the string to be displayed.

I would strongly advise against doing such development as it goes against design guidelines and becomes resource-intensive for the AX client.

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It's not practically possible.

Sure, you can do almost anything with enough effort, so this is surely technical possible too, but you would end up using some low-level APIs for hacking into and modifying windows created by AX. It's not something you're supposed to do.

My advice is keeping you user interface changes in forms and not meddling with things outside forms. If you really want a scrolling text (which I would hate as a user, so I would try hard to convince the client not to do that), put such a control to your form.

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Hi,

Thanks for Quick Response, But I tried that and that is only info which is not movable.

Here i wanted to move data from right to left. any other suggestions apart from that, it would be appreciated if you give me some other solution. thanks in advance.

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Suresh

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Interpret again what I said. You need to take care of alternating the string, and repetitively calling that method, which will emulate scrolling - if you really want to do it by going against our advice.

1st iteration: displayStr = " A B C"

2nd iteration: displayStr = "A B C "

3rd iteration: displayStr = " B C A"

You get the idea..

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Hi Martin,

Here, we want to show some news to all users timely. So that we customized a form and that will be maintained by only one user. He will enter the news in that form(In a String field). That news will move on all users status bar.

Even i hate this, but it looks interesting. that's why I'm taking suggestions from you. If possible please help on this!

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Suresh

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Martin Dráb 237,801 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Is sounds like reinventing alerts.

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Hi Vilmos,

I don't go beyond your suggestions, but i don't have an idea to start this.

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Suresh

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Hi Martin,

Then, What is your comment on this?

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Suresh

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On your form call element.SetTimeOut as described here, to trigger your custom method where you shift the string by 1 character to the left on each call, then send it to the status bar:

daxguy.blogspot.hu/.../automatically-update-form-after-time.html

If you want to do it for all forms globally, then SysSetupFormRun is the class which is the parent of all forms - you may find examples where they add custom text on bottom of forms or coloring per company on blogs using this.

And third times' a charm, do not do this even though it is possible. I'll emphasize it: PERFORMANCE KILLER.

Cheers

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Martin Dráb 237,801 Most Valuable Professional on at

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If you manipulate the window directly through Win32 API, you'll get much better performance (probably a few orders of magnitude), but it's not trivial at all. I wouldn't spend time with it and I strongly recommend you don't do it either. But if you insist, look at Win32 API: How to scroll down automatically a text inside EDIT control? or something like that. Getting a reference to the status bar is the easy part, but even that isn't trivial if you're not used to Win32 API.

And obviously no such thing makes sense in the current version of AX (as the old Win32 client is gone), which is another argument for not wasting time with it.

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