New Window with large scrolling text

Poison Joe · Post by **Poison Joe** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:11 am

Hi all,

most times I listen to my music, I'm not in front of my monitor, mostly 3-5 meters away. I have thousands of songs and despite I love them all, I do not know every song

I hate it to go to my monitor to find out to which song I'm currently listening. Therefore I want to build a window on top of the main window, with a label showing what is currently playing. So far no problem.
But can you tell me how to change the fontsize of a label? It must be greater than the normal font, so I can read it 3-5 meters away.
Also nice would be if I could make the text scrollable, because some titels are very long.
Should look like:

"Peter Gabriel - Here comes the flood"

Greetings,

Poison Joe

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:51 am

How have you created your window?

Personally I would create a dockable panel which sat at the bottom of my screen in which I would have a simple html page with the title, which could use the marquee tag to make the text scroll.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:04 pm

you have something on your system already to tell you if you just set it up and get the proper program.

i know you wanted to make your own window but this option is worth doing and not that hard to set up. so check it out below.

why not make the computer talk to you. ?

if you have windows 98se or newer you have most the main program in the system now. windows Xp has a missing file but you can get it from msdn downloads for free.

the rest you can get from online in different sites if you want too.
i am talking about a way to use the msagents program to tell you what songs are playing.

i use them all the time. you will need the following.

1. msagent server 2.0 program. (you have that it is a system file now.)

2. you need a text to voice engine, you can get free ones from msdn download site for msagents.

3. you need sapi 4. if you have winxp

4. you need an msagent character to use. you should have merlin but his voice is not very well suited for being a dee jay. genie is better to hear.

5. you need the djamp program. you can get that from the yahoo group for msagent charactors. its in the folder there for downloading.

6. you need to understand how to use djamp with media monkey. so you should read my help page for it. http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/rovingcowb ... dpage.html
and look in the msagent download section for the help page for the new version of djamp.

7 ask if you need help with it. if you want to do it. there are other programs that you can use that might work with monkey they were made for winamp but i am not sure if they work with monkey, i know djamp does.
and the djamp author has giving us 5000 tigger keywords and 5000 comments we can use. the triggers are for making the agent say the words to some titles properly my help page tells all about it.

you must beable to misspell words if you want to get the computers to say them properly as the computer voice engines can not say all words properly, but check out the help page. and email me if you want help or ask the yahoo group, since you will have to join it to get the djamp program.

roving cowboy / keith hall.
not logged in.

Poison Joe · Post by **Poison Joe** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 5:32 am

@trixmoto

Thanks for the tip. Now I have a scrolling text showing the information I want. But two things bother me:

1. The text is not visible when scrolling starts, would be better if the text is fully shown and then starts to scroll

2. The main window lost focus, how can I set it back to main window?

@guest
Nice idea, but I don't want that msagent tells me every song

most of my songs I know very well.

Greetings,

Poison Joe

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 9:29 am

your welcome but

i did not tell you they said every song. i just told you to check the info out.

i have it playing and it only comes on and says one or two songs every three or four hours.

but the djamp has all that and my help page has all that already typed and it would be a large document if i was to re type it here..

but i was just tossing the info out for you to think about. .

roving cowboy / keith hall.

not logged in again.

trixmoto · Post by **trixmoto** » Fri Apr 14, 2006 2:24 pm

1) I thought the idea of having scrolling text was that it wouldn't all fit in at once?

2) I don't know how to set the focu back to the main window, or whether this is even possible via a script. Sorry!

STabs · Post by **STabs** » Mon Apr 17, 2006 3:00 pm

Poison Joe;

I have found a winamp plugin called DanceAmp X which does what you want for winamp (i use winamp as my player as it supports video so much better that mm). I tried it with the mm player but I can't get it to work.

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details.php?id=92581

Cheers STabs