Option to truncate price on cryptotracker to disable scrolling about community HOT 8 CLOSED

Agreed, this seems like a nice enhancement for the both the community crypto app and the official Stocks as well for cases like BRK.A. These should both truncate the decimal and use humanize to add thousands commas.

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Seeing now this can also affect the price delta, right now BTC is down 244.13 and that's wide enough to make it scroll. display_symbol() is using the same width of 34 as the price below, even though all of the available symbols are only three characters (

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this is a good idea, I will look in to it

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Seeing now this can also affect the price delta, right now BTC is down 244.13 and that's wide enough to make it scroll. display_symbol() is using the same width of 34 as the price below, even though all of the available symbols are only three characters (

https://github.com/tidbyt/community/blob/9761e1aa27dfc98c5b93f8c6103b391da3a5b1d4/apps/cryptotracker/crypto_tracker.star#L29

). It would make sense to give more width to that price delta , as it stands about 25% of the line is unused.

@cgrin IIRC I did this to future proof for the option to display the full coin name

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Makes sense. Can the widths be defined dynamically? If so you could do something like ticker_width = min(34, 5*len(ticker_symbol)) and then delta_width = 63 - ticker_width

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@cgrin opened a pr, lmk your thoughts. I don't want to change the widths of the price change marquee render, as my initial goal with this app is to mirror the existing stock app as closely as possible.

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Looks great!

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