• scrolling text: The text scrolls within the control in a given direction.
• blinking text: The text alternates between two colors.

How to?

1. Open the text description window (select "Description" in the context menu).
2. In the "Details" tab, go to "Animation" and set the animation options. Choose the type of animation and configure the associated options. The options depend on the selected animation mode.

For scrolling text, you can define the following options:

• Refresh rate.
• Number of pixels the text moves each time it is refreshed.
• Scroll direction. Text can scroll:
  • from left to right,
  • from right to left,
  • from bottom to top,
  • from top to bottom.
• New in version 2025
  If the animation must repeat, and if so, the number of loops.
  Note: This feature is only available from version 2025 Update 1.

For blink text, you can define the following options:

• Blink rate.
• Text blinking color. Two colors are required to achieve the text blinking effect:
  • standard text color.
  • text blinking color. If this color is transparent, the text will appear every other time.

Remarks

• RTF and text with a "Blurred shadow" cannot be animated.
• The animation of a Static Text control is only visible at runtime.
• Animated text is limited to 1024 bytes.
• The animation does not work anymore if functions for text formatting are used (gFontBold, gFontSize, gFontItalic, gFontUnderlined).
• New in version 2025
  You can also make long text scroll automatically in a Static Text control. This option is particularly useful for Static Text controls displaying dynamic data. For more details, see Auto-scrolling text.
  Note: This feature is only available from version 2025 Update 1.