Rockbox

It is difficult to read a long line of text once it starts scrolling, because it's hard to make out the start point of the line. This is especially true for those using older players with lower resolution or greyscale screens.

I think there are two alternatives that would make it much easier to read long scrolling text (ie a long artist name in the WPS - one that is too long for bidirectional scroll to be useful).

1. If after scrolling through the entire line the text paused before beginning to scroll again. If could pause for the duration set under scroll start delay each time it completed an entire scroll of the line. This would make it much easier to read the text (or it could be a half second pause, but scroll start delay is alreday there).

or

2. If the scroller inserted a blank space after the end of the text of the line before the point where the text repeats. This blank space would also make it much easier todistinguish the start of the line.

There could be a menu option to turn this sort of behaviour on and off, or choose between the two options, although personally I think it would be good enough just to implement one of the fixes.

Personally I think 1 is a better solution, but 2 would also work.


Sorry to load on another request, but this one has been bugging me since I started using rockbox in the summer (which is awesome). I have a lot of files & lectures with long names & it's too hard to read their titles once they start scrolling. I often have to enter & exit the playlist screen or a menu to reset the scroll delay so I can read the ID3 info, which really shouldn't be necessary.

(Scroll speed & step size don't really fix the problem, as the issue is the mental cue needed to make out the start of the line, not reading the text per say.)