public bool ScrollText(TextToScroll text)
{
if (Texts.Count > 0)
{
Texts.Enqueue(text);
CurrentText = Texts.Dequeue();
if (IsScrolling)
{
return(true);
}
}
else
{
CurrentText = text;
}
IsScrolling = true;
_ledStripTranslation.Image.Clear();
_ledStripTranslation.Device.Update();
ColorGrid = new Color[_ledStripTranslation.Height, _ledStripTranslation.Width];
// adding letters one column at a time
while (CurrentText.ScrollIterations > 0)
{
foreach (char c in CurrentText.Letters)
{
IEnumerable <string> currentLetter = Font[c];
foreach (string column in currentLetter)
{
ShiftColorGrid();
// add on new column
for (int i = 0; i < column.Length; i++)
{
if (column[i].Equals('1'))
{
ColorGrid[i, ColorGrid.GetLength(1) - 1] = CurrentText.Color;
}
else
{
ColorGrid[i, ColorGrid.GetLength(1) - 1] = Color.Empty;
}
}
_ledStripTranslation.Image.Clear();
_ledStripTranslation.ToImage(ColorGrid);
_ledStripTranslation.Device.Update();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
}
}
// shift to clear scrolling text
for (int i = 0; i < _ledStripTranslation.Width; i++)
{
ShiftColorGrid();
for (int j = 0; j < _ledStripTranslation.Height; j++)
{
ColorGrid[j, ColorGrid.GetLength(1) - 1] = Color.Empty;
}
_ledStripTranslation.Image.Clear();
_ledStripTranslation.ToImage(ColorGrid);
_ledStripTranslation.Device.Update();
System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(100);
}
CurrentText.ScrollIterations--;
if (Texts.Count > 0)
{
CurrentText = Texts.Dequeue();
}
}
IsScrolling = false;
return(true);
}
public bool AddText(TextToScroll text)
{
Texts.Enqueue(text);
return(true);
}
