Marquee a Text in C#.Net 4.0 Window Form Application

Introduction

I think everyone is aware of the marquee tag in HTML that scrolls text and we all also use the marquee tag in .Net applications to scroll text but in a web application. In this article I implement this for a Windows Forms since there is not a control available to scroll the text. So in this article I will scroll the text using the timer control.

Use the following procedure to create this.

First of  take the control from the toolbox to design the window. In this article I have taken two buttons, one label and one timer control to implement the marquee in C#.

Now enter C# code for the Left to Right button click event, as in:

private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    xpos = label1.Location.X;
    ypos = label1.Location.Y;
    mode = "Left-to-Right";
    timer1.Start();
}

And enter it for the left button click, as in:

private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    xpos = label1.Location.X;
    ypos = label1.Location.Y;
    mode = "Right-to-Left";
    timer1.Start();
}

Here is the full source code in C#:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Data;
using System.Drawing;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Windows.Forms;
namespace marquee_text
{
    public partial class Form1 : Form
    {
        public Form1()
        {
            InitializeComponent();
        }
        private int xpos = 0, ypos = 0;
        public string mode = "Left-to-Right";
        private void button1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            xpos = label1.Location.X;
            ypos = label1.Location.Y;
            mode = "Left-to-Right";
            timer1.Start();
        }
        private void button2_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            xpos = label1.Location.X;
            ypos = label1.Location.Y;
            mode = "Right-to-Left";
            timer1.Start();
        }
        private void timer1_Tick(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            if (mode == "Left-to-Right")
            {
                if (this.Width == xpos)
                {
                    this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(0, ypos);
                    xpos = 0;
                }
                else
                {
                    this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(xpos, ypos);
                    xpos += 2;
                }
            }
            else if (mode == "Right-to-Left")
            {
                if (xpos == 0)
                {
                    this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(this.Width, ypos);
                    xpos = this.Width;
                }
                else
                {
                    this.label1.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(xpos, ypos);
                    xpos -= 2;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

Note: Now run your application and click on the button to see the effect.

Here I have clicked on the Right to Left button.