Sine Wave Scroller in Monkey2

Today’s little code, sine scroller in Monkey2. In the previous post you can download the code and data files for plain scroller. In this project same data files are used. Let’s take a look at the video:

The scrolling isn’t very smooth in the video, but try the code:

Namespace myapp

#Import "<std>"
#Import "<mojo>"


#Import "gfx/bg.jpg"
#Import "fonts/DoctorJekyllNF.ttf"

Using std..
Using mojo..


Class MyWindow Extends Window

Const SCROLLTEXT:String = "                              Sine scroller programmed in Monkey2 programming language...  One of the traditional sine scrollers seen in Amiga demos...                   "

Field bg:Image
Field scrollString:String
Field scrollX:Int
Field scrollY:Int
Field chrStartOffset:Int
Field firstChrWidth:Int
Field chrEndOffset:Int
Field font:Font

Field angl:Float

	Method New( title:String="Simple sine scroller",width:Int=640,height:Int=480,flags:WindowFlags=Null )

		Super.New( title,width,height,flags )

		bg = Image.Load("asset::bg.jpg")
		font = Font.Load("asset::DoctorJekyllNF.ttf",80)
		
		
		chrStartOffset = 0
		firstChrWidth = font.TextWidth(SCROLLTEXT.Mid(0,1))
		scrollX = 0
		
	End

	Method OnRender( canvas:Canvas ) Override
	
		App.RequestRender()

		canvas.DrawImage(bg,0,0)
		canvas.Font = font
		canvas.Color = Color.Orange
		
					
		If scrollX < -firstChrWidth Then
			
			chrStartOffset = chrStartOffset + 1

			If chrStartOffset > SCROLLTEXT.Length - 1 Then chrStartOffset = 0
			
			firstChrWidth = font.TextWidth(SCROLLTEXT.Mid(chrStartOffset,1))
			chrEndOffset = getTextEndOffset()
			
			If chrEndOffset > SCROLLTEXT.Length - 1 Then chrEndOffset = 0
			
			scrollX = 0
		Endif
				
		
		
				
		Local s:String
		Local position:Int = 0

		For Local c:Int = 0 To scrollString.Length - 1
			s = scrollString.Mid(c,1)
		
			Local angle:Float = ((640.0 / scrollString.Length) / 360.0 * 2) * (Pi / 180) + 8 * (chrStartOffset + c) * (Pi / 180) + angl
			
			scrollY = 200 + Sin(angle) * 80
			canvas.DrawText(s,scrollX+position,scrollY)
			
			position = position + font.TextWidth(scrollString.Mid(c,1))
		Next
		
		scrollX = scrollX - 2
		angl = angl - (Pi / 180) * 4
	End

	
	Method getTextEndOffset:Int()
		Local c:Int = chrStartOffset
		Local textWidth:Int = 0
		
		scrollString = ""
		
		' Find the end offset for a character to build a string
		' that's width in pixels is at least 640 + first character's width
		While textWidth < 640 + firstChrWidth
			
			scrollString = scrollString + SCROLLTEXT.Mid(c,1)
			c = c + 1
						
			If c > SCROLLTEXT.Length - 1 Then c = 0
			
			textWidth = font.TextWidth(scrollString)
		Wend
		
		Return c
		
	End	
		
End

Function Main()

	New AppInstance
	
	New MyWindow
	
	App.Run()
End

The idea is to build a string (“scrollString”) that’s characters are drawn one by one to the screen in order to achieve the sine wave effect.

Feel free to use this code.