Handling display of long strings

[simoncn]

(20-05-2014 14:14)smazumder Wrote:  Hi,

Some times the value of Display tags can be really long (like Artist(s) name, Title etc.) to be accommodated in the display of the Renderers.

Some Renderers handle it effectively by making a long display scrolling, some does not. Like I've seen Sonos, Pioneer Elite N30 doing it right but PS Audio PWD cannot - it just cuts the string.

Wondering is there a way this can be controlled from Minim Server way using some kind of scrolling tag ? Or any other way out so that I don't need to depend on Renderer.

Regards,
Sourav

It isn't possible for the server to do scrolling. I think the only thing you could do on the server would be to create a shorter version of the string (such as ArtistShort or TitleShort) and use the replace setting of the tagValue property to replace the Artist value by the ArtistShort value, etc. This replacement would apply to all renderers.