Animated Components
Once upon a time while writing a Delphi application, we thought to ourselves, “This is a really cool application, but our About dialog is kind of boring. We need something to spice it up a little.” Suddenly, a light bulb came on and an idea for a new component was born We would create a scrolling credits marquee window to incorporate into our About dialogs.
The Marquee Component
Let's take a moment to analyze how the marquee component works. The marquee control: is able to take a bunch of strings and scroll them across the component on command, like a real-life marquee. You'll use TCustomPanel as the base class for this TddgMarquee component because it already has the basic built-in functionality you need, including a pretty ...
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