[TFT 2.8] Disable wrap would rather Scroll?

[civicbynature]

Hello,
I'm currently working on an awesome project I hope to show off very soon .
Using the raspberry pi, arduino and adafruit's 2.8 TFT breakout.

I'm sending strings of text from the Rpi to arduino via uart to be displayed on the Lcd. But what I really need or I guess need to know is How or is it possible to disable the wrap feature for text and instead some how get the text to scroll left or right?
I know I can just make the text smaller to fit more on a line but that is so aesthetically unpleasing.

The goal is to display titles of songs and/or radio streams within a certain area and not wrap to the next line, as it would then interfere with other Areas, buttons etc...

Help/idea's..plz

Civicbynature

[adafruit_support_rick]

To disable text wrapping, use setTextWrap(false).

To make the line scroll, you write it over and over again, each time advancing the "start" of the line. Here's a VERY simplistic illustration:

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tft.print("Scrolling…  ");
tft.print("crolling…  S");
tft.print("rolling…  Sc");

You would actually want to do it by moving pointers around in a single character buffer (left as an exercise for the reader ).