Scrolling idea: wrap it!

midiwall · 02-27-2007, 04:47 PM

I had an idea for scrolling text... how about continuous wrap-around?

So... If you have:

"This is a long song title that would scroll"

It would go though something like:

Code:

This is a long song title
his is a long song title t
is is a long song title th
s is a long song title tha
...
itle that would scroll   T
tle that would scroll   Th
le that would scroll   Thi
e that would scroll   This

veetid · 02-27-2007, 04:57 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by midiwall

I had an idea for scrolling text... how about continuous wrap-around?

So... If you have:

"This is a long song title that would scroll"

It would go though something like:

Code:

This is a long song title
his is a long song title t
is is a long song title th
s is a long song title tha
...
itle that would scroll   T
tle that would scroll   Th
le that would scroll   Thi
e that would scroll   This

just set the scroll delay to 0 and it will be not delay...

david

midiwall · 02-27-2007, 05:08 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by veetid

just set the scroll delay to 0 and it will be not delay...

??? I'm talking about a different way to scroll the text, not the speed of the scroll.

turbocad6 · 02-27-2007, 05:37 PM

he wants the beginning of the text to follow the end of the text before the text disappears I think..

midiwall · 02-27-2007, 05:40 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by turbocad6

he wants the beginning of the text to follow the end of the text before the text disappears I think..

Right... it's just another idea versus scrolling first to last, pause, reset to first, repeat. This would be a continuous scroll.

I implemented it on the device we manufacture here and I thought it was an interesting alternative.

veetid · 02-27-2007, 05:53 PM

I see... I will look into it...

At one point in some previous version if you set the scroll delay to zero I ran different code that did just this... it didn't go back to start and scroll again, but scrolled constantly...

did you try?

If not I see what you mean and maybe I will look into making it work this way if the scroll delay is zero...

david

Cabe · 02-27-2007, 06:01 PM

Currently if you select 0 as soon as it finishes scrolling it resets to the start of the title.

Running 1.0.0 here would like this feature too it makes it a little bit more "polished" if you know what I mean, as would waiting for the song to scroll off the screen before resetting the display.

midiwall · 02-27-2007, 06:03 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Cabe

Currently if you select 0 as soon as it finishes scrolling it resets to the start of the title.

Yeup, confirmed.

Quote:

Running 1.0.0 here would like this feature too it makes it a little bit more "polished" if you know what I mean.

Yeup.

Thanks David