GoCubs;545319 Wrote: 
> 
> I'm playing with a screen that cycles between weather and sports.  I'm
> having an issue where I want my visibility group to cycle through all
> the teams before moving to the next visibility group.  Would it be
> possible to add logic that if the visibility time for a visibility
> group is blank that it will cycle through all of the games each for x
> interval time before moving to the next visibility group?
> 
>From a user perspective, it makes sense that empty visibility time
would mean that the item itself decides how long it should be
displayed, I'm just not sure how easy that's can be implemented. 

>From a development perspective it could get a bit complex in some cases
and there are some special cases, for example it currently restarts from
the first item if the list of games changes during the cycling period.
The visibility time can't easily be changed after the item is shown in
the current solution, because the logic is based on ordering the items
within the same visibility order, so I think we might want to ignore
this special case.

For scrolling items, we would probably want to make it wait until it
had scrolled though the whole item but I'm not sure how easy that's
going to be to implement. 

Another issue is if you have a non switching item in the same
visibility order as a switching item. If the items decide for them self
how long they are going to be displayed, this means that the non
switching item will be displayed a lot shorter than the switching item.
So in this case all items with empty visiblity time should probably
calculate their own time, but if it's shorter than the item with the
maximum visibility time within the same visibility order, they would
use the maximum visibility time instead.

Anyway, I agree with you from a user perspective, but I think I would
prefer to add this kind of functionality in a future version since it
will get a bit complex in some cases and requires some time to be
implemented correctly. Maybe you could just set the visibility time a
bit longer at the moment to make sure it works fairly good in most
cases ?


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