R4 Marquee Control
jason_the_adams
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I'm playing around with using the Marquee ability on the R4 as a way to display text which would otherwise be cut off or too small to be readable if reduced in size to fit. Initially, it worked pretty good; all the text was scrolling, and it just needed to be sped up, which is fine. After awhile though, the text on different buttons got out of sync with one another and it just looked annoying.
Since then, I've been trying to figure a clever way to utilize scrolling without the risk of making the screen appear terribly haphazard and obnoxious. I was trying to figure a way to make a button scroll once when pressed, but there's no way (to my knowledge) to know how long dynamic text will take to scroll through one complete revolution. On top of that, one couldn't simply make it momentary either, for as soon as the user lifted their finger off the button it would snap back (assuming off state is justified and on state a marquee).
So that's pretty much where I'm at. Anyone else come up with any creative ideas on using the marquee property?
Thanks!
Since then, I've been trying to figure a clever way to utilize scrolling without the risk of making the screen appear terribly haphazard and obnoxious. I was trying to figure a way to make a button scroll once when pressed, but there's no way (to my knowledge) to know how long dynamic text will take to scroll through one complete revolution. On top of that, one couldn't simply make it momentary either, for as soon as the user lifted their finger off the button it would snap back (assuming off state is justified and on state a marquee).
So that's pretty much where I'm at. Anyone else come up with any creative ideas on using the marquee property?
Thanks!
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For example if you were going to scroll Radio and DVD on adjacent buttons you could add a space in front of and behind DVD so that they would scroll in unison.
Paul
One or two firmware releases ago I found the R4 I found the following issues with the marquee
Not sure if it has been resolved with recent firmware releases.
Media meta-content that you have no good idea how large it's going to be: a large window with word wrap can look silly when half empty, and throw off your design, especially when you have such limited space to start. In fact, I am quite sure it was introduced with the R-4 for the express purpose of providing an alternative to word wrap in limited space designs. Scrolling text is perfect for this.
I would like to see a few more options in the marquee control though ... like the ability to scroll once, then stop; or to scroll on a press, or on a hold only.
They definitely need the option to scroll on touch or scroll once and stop.... or even implement it so that scrolling on a page is synchronized. Maybe every 5 or 10 seconds, the buttons scroll in unison.
A large window with word wrap half empty does look silly, but a listing of 5 songs on an R4 scrolling continuously and out of sync is just plain confusing.
Jeff
I think if scrolling text was something that helped users it would turn up more often on cell phones where screen space is at a premium. The only UIs I have ever seen scrolling text on was web pages from the mid 90s.
Jeff
I really dislike the scrolling text at the bottom of news stations. It is so distracting for the eye and breaks every UI design rule. What should the scroll speed be? Too slow and its annoying, too fast and its annoying. Its really just plain annoying. Did I mention its annoying?
I am not saying not to use it, I just personally hate it.
Paul
Jeff
It works well enough on my car stereo for exactly what I was describing. Old web pages used it for effect - and it was a lousy one, all flash and glitter. But that is not the point here, and it is, in fact, showing up on more devices. It's not the concept that's flawed, its the implementation.