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using the edit box, is there a quick way of making text scroll back and forth automaticly?

You'll have to use a timer and 'hard spaces' ($chr(160) / $chr(255))

i understand what you mean, but i can scroll it one way but not the other

You mean you want it to scroll to the left as well? If so you can use the same logic but use $mid(text,N) (so you effectively remove the first character each time the timer executes.)

I dont know about a "quick way"
but you can try this

Code:

alias rescroll dialog -m rescroll rescroll
dialog rescroll {
  title "Reversing Scroll Sample"
  size -1 -1 100 50
  option dbu
  edit "", 100, 5 5 90 15
  button "Start", 900, 24 25 25 15
  button "Stop", 901, 51 25 25 15 
  button "", 999, 0 0 0 0, cancel
}
on *:dialog:rescroll:init:0:{
  set %rescroll.text ....................This string of text.
  set %rescroll.control left
  set %rescroll.count 1
  .timerrescroll.left 0 1 moveleft
}
on *:dialog:rescroll:sclick:900:{
  if (%rescroll.count &gt; 10) {
    .timerrescroll.left 0 1 moveleft
  }
  if (%rescroll.count &lt;= 9) {
    .timerrescroll.right 0 1 moveright
  }

}
on *:dialog:rescroll:sclick:901:{
  .timerrescroll* off
}
on *:dialog:rescroll:sclick:999:{
  .timerrescroll* off
  unset %rescroll*
}
alias moveleft {
  if (%rescroll.count &gt; 39) { 
    .timerrescroll.left off
    .timerrescroll.right 0 1 moveright
  }
  did -ra rescroll 100 $mid(%rescroll.text,%rescroll.count,40)
  inc %rescroll.count
}
alias moveright {
  if (%rescroll.count &lt;= 1) { 
    .timerrescroll.right off
    .timerrescroll.left 0 1 moveleft
  }
  did -ra rescroll 100 $mid(%rescroll.text,%rescroll.count,40)
  dec %rescroll.count
}

cheers mate,
that code woks well
witch a little tweking for my script