Rockbox

horizontal scroll!

This patch binds on+left and on+right to scroll screen view
to the sides. this is very usefull when viewing a folder
with long artist name: you can simply scroll the view
to the right and see the filenames ends.
(iriver remote: volume up/down)

it was tested on a recorder, gmini and ondio simulators
and is running on my h120 player.

this patch does not build for the recorder, i’ve figured

it’s kind of silly when it can affect only two lines

anyways.

there are two new options in General settings → Display →

Scrolling menu:

Screen scrolls out of view:

let you choose if you rather have lines slipping out of
view
when scrolling sideways, or stop the line from scrolling

when reaching it’s end.

Screen scroll step size:

To set how much pixels are scrolled with a click.

problems:

   the only thing that stops when right scrolling, is

not

letting the offset value go over 1000. that means if
you’ll

keep holding on+right, you will increase the offset value

without effecting the view, and it will take you longer to

resume the original position. the solution would be to
find

out what’s the longest item in the list, and using that
item

pixel number as a maximum on right scrolling.

   There should be a different integer individualy kept 

for file viewing and playlist viewing, so when you’r
back on

viewing the file list, it’s in the same place. the next

phase would be to have a different assignments for every

screen.

   (plugin and filetree uses the same list, and they are 

the only ones that do not initialized in every use… causes

wierd results in plugins if filetree was scrolled… and you

can scroll the menus as well, this should be all
solved, I’m

way to tierd to do this.)

   furthermore, it might be a good idea to have every 

folder have it’s own saved offset configuration. that way,

when you’ll enter a folder with long artist name, the

display will just go to the correct place without any

hassle. that is, of course, if you had scrolled it to the

desired place before. (maybe embedding the offset
integer in

the dircache? only in folders that you have changed the

setting? just a thought, anyhow.)

   one last thing, if you set "screen scroll out of

view”

to yes, and the selected item is starting to get out of

view, i’ve just made the item not scroll. scrolling
gave me

a lot of headaches and if this will be accepted we can
go on

to working the bugs out.

I hope this is made ‘the right way’ (I’m sure many of it

isn’t.) and I hope that you might think it’s a good patch

too! I simply love it now, especially the remote!

Liberman Shachar.