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Description

A textbox that automatically scrolls through the text if the text length exceeds the size of the textbox.

Changelog

Change

Date

Version

TextboxScrolllup Scrolling

2013/01/27

1.2.0 to 1.3.0

Y-offset in TextBoxScrollup

2013/08/27

1.4.0 to 1.5.0

Line Spacing in Text control

2010/10/05

1.1.0 to 1.2.0

Shadow Text in Text Control

2010/10/05

1.1.0 to 1.2.0




Tags

Textboxscrollup

Element Name

Data Type

Description

font

String

The font to use to display the label.

lineSpacing

Float

Specifies the desired line spacing for the text in the control. The value must be in the format of a floating point number. Default is 1.0.

textcolor

Long

The color of the text when the button has the focus/is selected. Default is 0xFFFFFFFF (white).

label

String

The textbox text, a skin variable, or a number that corresponds to an id in the strings.xml file. A new line can be forced within the text by specifying the sequence \r at the point where the new line is required.

textalign

Alignment

Align of the text in the textbox "left", "right" or "center". Default is "left".

shadowAngle

Integer

Angle between text and the text shadow. Default is 0.

shadowDistance

Integer 

Distance between the text and the shadow. Default is 0.

shadowColor

Long

Color of the text shadow. Default is 0xFF000000 (black).

seperator

String

Text that is shown after the end of the text and before the beginning of the next iteration.

scrollStartDelaySec

int

Delay in seconds when the text within the textbox will start to scroll. Default is 3.

spaceBetweenItems

int

Space between the end of the text and the beginning of the next iteration. Default is 2.

Inherited by GUIControl

See GUIControl for the full documentation of this control.

Element Name

Data Type

Description

id

Integer

The id of the control. The id will couple the skin file to the code, so if we later on want to check that a user pressed a button, the id will be required and must be unique. For controls that will never be referenced in the code it is safe to set it to "1"

description

String

An optional description of the control for your reference

type

String

The type of the control, for instance "button", "label", "textbox" and all other controls.

posX

Integer

The X-position on the window for this control

posY

Integer

The Y-position on the window for this control

width

Integer

The width of this control

height

Integer

The height of this control

onleft

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves left. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

onright

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves right. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

onup

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves up. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

ondown

Integer

The control id to move the focus to when the user moves down. If not specified (or zero) MediaPortal will find the closest control in that direction to move to. As of v1.7.0 Skin Settings and Skin Expressions are also supported. 

colordiffuse

Long

Allows you to mix a color & a graphics texture. E.g. If you have a graphics texture like a blue button you can mix it with a yellow color diffuse and the end result will be green. Defaults to 0xFFFFFFFF

dimColor

Integer

Color for a control when it is not focussed. Defaults to half transparent (0x60ffffff)

onfocus

String

[Since 1.3] Executes a MediaPortal skin function when the control gains focus.  See Skin Settings for more information.

XML examples

<control>
  <description>default textarea</description>
  <type>textboxscrollup</type>
  <id>4</id>
  <posX>220</posX>
  <posY>220</posY>
  <width>410</width>
  <height>300</height>
  <font>font13</font>
  <textcolor>ffffffff</textcolor>
  <colordiffuse>ffffffff</colordiffuse>
  <seperator>--------------------------------</seperator>
  <scrollStartDelaySec>10</scrollStartDelaySec>
  <spaceBetweenItems>4</spaceBetweenItems>
  <label>#plot</label>
</control>
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