Question

I need to add a moving text or moving title im my windows 8 application.
How can i do this with XAML??
Here is an example with HTML: http://www.astwinds.com/astuces/html/textedefilant.html

Best regards

Answer 1

Here is one way to do it. Surely there are more.

Add a call to MoveMarqueeText function to the Composition Target Rending event in your OnNavigatedTo event.

protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
{
     CompositionTarget.Rendering += MoveMarqueeText;
}

Add a function which will remove first character of string and append it to the end.

void MoveMarqueeText(object sender, object e)
{
     Marquee.Text = Marquee.Text.Substring(1)  + Marquee.Text.Substring(0,1);
}

With XAML

<TextBlock Text="woot hey woot woot hey woot hey woot woot hey woot hey woot woot hey" Width="250" x:Name="Marquee" TextWrapping="NoWrap">

To slow it down add a conditional statement and a counter increment in your MoveMarqueeText function, to slow it down to time based, use a timer in your conditional.