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alternative to sublines, useful?

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JdGordon:
Here is my idea. add a new tag which auto increments every X ms to possibly make sublines easier to understand/use.

example: %?xx5<a|b|c|d> would be the equivalent of %t5a;%t5b;%t5c;%t5d   (show a for 5s then b for 5s etc, repeat).

The advantage would be obviously less code and easier to read? disadvantage would be all parts would display for the same amount of time.

it would be dead simple to add, so if anyone thinks this would be useful speak up, or I'll forget about it :)

Yotto:
Would it hurt to have both? I would assume it would add to the memory footprint.

I for one am not a fan of the current subline code. It does make others' WPSs hard to read.

JdGordon:
I meant in addition, not a replacement.

Llorean:
Do we really need an increasing number of ways to do the same thing?

It seems like creating duplicates of identical functionality just opens the doors up to having the WPS code balloon. Shouldn't it generally be attempted to only add things that actually add new functionality?

JdGordon:
http://www.rockbox.org/tracker/task/11210

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