Choose Layer > Add Layer > Add Scroller Layer... to create a new Scroller layer.
The new Scroller layer can be selected from the Layers listbox to make it the active layer.
With the scroller layer you can create 2D text scrollers.
To make your scroller scroll smoothly it is important to have a fast computer, to turn on Vertical Sync on your graphics card and not to set your graphics card to maximum image quality.
The scroller layer supports the same positioning modes as the picture layer.
The text is rendered only once.
If necessary, the text is repeated to fill the scroller rectangle.
The position of the scroller.
The rotation of the scroller.
The width of the scroller. When editing, the width of the scroller is drawn as a transparent box.
See the text layer for more info about these properties.
The speed of the scroller. If you are writing Hebrew or Arabic you can use a negative value to make the text scroll to the right.