Hi,
I'm an experienced C++ developer but new to Mac OS X. I am familiar
with basic Cocoa development, Objective-C, etc.
I want to write a small app that open a window and at the bottom has a
scrolling text area, like a stock ticker. As new data arrives, I want
it to smoothly scroll in from the right, causing text at the extreme
left to scroll out of the window. Normal "ticker" type stuff.
Being new to Mac OS, I'm not exactly sure how best to go about this.
Especially about getting the letters to smoothly scroll in (i.e. not
whole letter at a time). Do I draw to an offscreen bitmap and copy
part of it to the window for display?
If anyone has any ideas on how to go about this it'd be greatly
appreciated. I don't mind reading and doing the hard work of course,
I'm just not sure what way you would do this in Cocoa.
Thanks
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