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"Vertical Text Scroller V1", by specis

Loads the Lines of text from a file and scrolls them up the screen with Center Align.
Line limit is eh not sure. to much and it will overlap probably.

Code

resX = 800
resY = 600
resD = 16

Graphics resX,resY,redD
SetBuffer BackBuffer()
; Open the File and read all the lines in the file to count how many there are
linecount = 0                               ; Starts the line count at zero
firstImage = resy                          ; Makes sure the first image is placed off the bottom of the screen
linecountf = OpenFile("cha.txt")      ; opens the test file (REPLACE WITH TEXT FILE OF YOUYR CHOICE)
Repeat 
temp$ = ReadLine(linecountf)           ; Reads the line for no reason
linecount = linecount + 1                ; adds 1 to the line count
Until Eof(linecountf)                     ; If its the end of the file exit the loop
CloseFile(linecountf)                     ; closes the file
linecount = linecount - 1                ; takes 1 of the line count so we can setup the arrays
Color 247,201,89                          ; sets the colour to the funkey yellow
Dim pics(linecount)                     ; Sets up the array for the images
Dim cords(linecount)                     ; Sets up the array for the cordinates
Dim Middle(linecount)                     ; Sets up the position for the center of the screen
lines = OpenFile("cha.txt")           ; Reopen the txt file to read the lines this time
For x = 0 To (linecount) 
temp$ = ReadLine(lines)                ; reads the line of text
middlestr = (StringWidth(temp)/2)      ; works out the middle of the string in pixels
middle(x) = ((resx/2) - middlestr)      ; sets it to the middle if the screen offset by the size of the string
pics(x) = CreateImage(StringWidth(temp),15,1) ; Creates the image
SetBuffer ImageBuffer(pics(x)) 
Text 0,0,temp$                               ; draws the text to the screen
cords(x) = firstimage                     ; sets the Y cordinate place
SetBuffer BackBuffer()
firstimage = firstimage + 20           ; move the Y cordinate veriable down the screen for the next image
Next

While Not KeyHit(1)
Cls 
For x = 0 To linecount
DrawImage pics(x),middle(x),cords(x)
cords(x) = cords(x) - 1
If cords(x) < -50
   cords(x) = (resy + 20)
EndIf 
Next
Flip
Wend

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