Feature request: 12864 display QOL improvements

[KP0005]

• some way to display strings that are too long for the entire display width. It could be linebreaks, scrolling text...
• string slicing (some way to display a job file name without the 0:/gcodes/)
• time remaining based on slicer. It's already exposed in the object model, but the expressipn to convert [number of seconds] to HH:MM:SS seems to be too long for the menu file system.

[KP0005]

@KP0005 update
It is in fact possible to fit the entire object model to HH:MM:SS conversion into the script

Unfortunately the value does not appear to update unless you leave the screen and return to it.

[dc42]

@KP0005 for the first two items in your list, please create two feature requests at https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/issues.

Regarding the value not updating: which firmware version did you test that with?

[KP0005]

@dc42 it was 3.5.0 beta 4 on Duet Maestro. Fresh config set generated by the config tool and updated with a few tweaks (mesh bed levelling taper off height, correct spreadcycle timings, pressure advance and a few others

[KP0005]

@dc42 it's possible there is some other underlying issue. The board also sometimes refused to serve dwc until hard reset.

[dc42]

@KP0005 does the time value update correctly in 3.5.0-rc.1 ?

[KP0005]

@dc42 no, it only updates when you refresh the screen by switching to a different menu file and back
The text elements are also wayyyy too wide. I think it's around 40 pixels for a single digit number so I have to position them manually.

There's also a new issue: buttons with a gcode macro for the L parameter no longer work.

[KP0005]

my menu files are here:
https://ufile.io/9anizm85
(forum does not allow zip uploads)

[dc42]

@KP0005 in those menu files, which field doesn't update unless you force the page to refresh? I didn't see a field that expanded the time to HH:MM:SS.

I created https://github.com/Duet3D/RepRapFirmware/issues/913.

dc42 created this issue in Duet3D/RepRapFirmware

closed 12864 'value' menu items using object model expressions don't update #913