Marquee textfields in Menu about pebblejs

[Meiguro]

Marquees are absent partially on purpose. They're very battery intensive since they cause the entire screen to redraw at greater than 1 FPS, supposedly 15 FPS to get a fluid feel, and they do so without any user intervention unlike manual scrolling such as in a Card.

But I'm not entirely against this feature since pebble.js is supposed to enable functionality rather than deny it. It is just a dangerous combination on top of the extra bluetooth overhead pebble.js has. I'll consider trying it out and looking at the battery impact.

What is your particular use case? Are you implementing something similar to Evernote? In the mean time, you can push a Card on select to show the rest of the truncated information.

[NitroG42]

Thank for you answer :)
I totally agree with you about battery life, but it should just be a toggle switch (like marquee: true).
My use case is a pebble Todoist app https://apps.getpebble.com/applications/54ce42c994d00b0ebf0000c9
Which is exactly like Evernote. So this feature would be very useful in my case.
It the kind of app you use only when you need it, so the battery impact would be probably light.
Btw I forgot one thing but obviously the marquee should be only on the currently selected menu item.

And i can't use the select because it should toggle the task (complete/uncomplete). But I will use longPress, it's a good idea.

[Meiguro]

Ah, I see, a todo list. I agree that a marquee would definitely make your app more usable! I'm a bit short on time at the moment but eventually I'll add this feature as an option.

[NitroG42]

Don't worry, it's not urgent, I'll just add it when you'll have time :)
Thank you !

[compelling]

Any update on this issue since last summer, this has also been suggested by various users for our grocery app which is similar to the todo app as it uses lists with select reserved for mark as bought. Anyway, will do the long press thing meanwhile :)

[compelling]

Tried the card approach, but that does not work, at least not on the pebble round i tested on. Long text gets truncated at the end and there is no scroll buttons on the card. The text shown is more or less identical to the length shown on the 2 lines displayed on the menu. So the quick fix would be to have cards having scroll if text is long.