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I've created a timer which makes a textbox's text appear to be moving from left to right, how can I make it look smoother?

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17 Feb 2013CPOL 0  
First of all, I don't know what timer do you use. If you are using you are using System.Windows.Forms.Timer, don't do it: this timer is absolutely unsuitable for animation, because its accuracy is unacceptable, it can be amazingly bad. The only "benefit" of this timer class is the simplicity of...

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I have created a timer which makes a textbox's text appear to be moving from left to right, how can I make it look smoother?So far it does what I want, but the movement doesn't look right.Timer internal is 100Code:Public Class Form1 Dim CurrentName As String =...

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