[klisko]

Unfortunately that is true. There is no way to scroll text on the VFD.

What would be great is if you could put together a list of strings that you see on your VFD and how they would be best split up into two lines.

I don't see anything special, it's just the stuff configured to show:
- current menu item when in choosing what to play (Video, Movies, name of the movie currently highlighted...)
- whatever is configured in your program to be displayed while playing video/music (show name, episode/season number...)

With the exception of the two messages I mentioned in previous post, all others are just in one line and displayed with first 16 characters only. I tried with messages consisting of 20 letters "i" and 20 letters "w" as well as "12345678901234567890" and every time exactly 16 characters were displayed with no scrolling.

Also, VFD does not display any icons (nothing changes regardless of what is selected)

From my point of view, there may be two ways of proceeding:

1. every time your program displays something, it should calculate the length and first 16 characters display in row #1, and remaining characters in row #2. Further refinement would be to split text at word boundary and not in the middle (or at the beginning) of the word.

2. allow user to decide what will go where (personally, I prefer this option). You may include special <newline> delimiter so user can signal that (for example) title should go to first line and episode number to the second. Alternatively, you may change the interface of your program to have two lines for each of:
Playing a movie
Playing a tv show
Playing a song
Playing a music video

In this case, I could write %title% in first line and %artist% in second to achieve the same thing.

Ideally, you may want to take approach 1 while in control mode and approach 2 in "while playing" mode (but it is a lot more work, I guess).

Yeah I should be able to add them as options.

That would be great, thanks in advance!

Keep up the good work!