Anybody have example of sliding text?

That is pretty much exactly what you'd need to do. In some cases you can use WatchUi.animate() to animate stuff, but people often just do the work themselves and use a timer.

Here's an example of a device app with just scrolling text (no dots). It would need some work to be adapted your particular use case, but hopefully it helps somewhat.

Unfortunately the forum won't accept the code I posted, so it's on this external site instead:

https://pastebin.com/yyQaEZEi

(EDIT:

v2: update comment, update example for scrolling across ~half the screen width

v3: when scrolling wraps, slide text in smoothly from the edge, instead of making entire string suddenly appear)

Excellent, thanks a lot. This gives me a excellent starting point

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Nice! Looks great :)

li2niu said:

updateTimer.start(method(:triggerUpdate), 50 /* ms */, false);

A small flaw I noticed is the repeat should be true.

I don't think so, because updateTimer.start() is called every time onUpdate() runs, and the timer expiration causes onUpdate() to be called again. It's done that way on purpose. I could've used a repeating timer, but then I would only want to call updateTimer.start() once.

(The assumption here is that WatchUi.requestUpdate() always causes onUpdate() to run.)

I should really post stuff like this as github gists or something, so it's easier to update / collaborate.

How is it on an actual device?  It won't scroll unless it's a device with liveUpdates = true, and ones that do, it may impact the speed of going through the glances.  (what if there were 3 using 50ms timers next to each other?)

Oh, I see. I start the time in initialize function.  It is the difference.