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chrisys / train-departure-display

A replica, near real-time, miniature UK railway station train departure sign based upon a Raspberry Pi Zero and 256x64 SPI OLED display
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Letters on platforms not showing correctly for half platform stations #123

Closed ngsteven97 closed 4 months ago

ngsteven97 commented 5 months ago

My local train station is Reading which has half platforms depending on the size of the train - so for example for the trains to London Paddington from Reading, they could leave at Platform 11A or Platform 10A if it's a shorter train and doesn't need the whole platform. When showing trains from RDG -> PAD on my display, it cuts off the letter from the Platform number which is a minor inconvenience but looks weird. I was just wondering if there was anyway to pad out the text in the code so that there's an extra space between the platform and time, and if so which line of code needs to be edited.

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chrisys commented 4 months ago

Hmm, I think all we'd need to do is change this line: https://github.com/chrisys/train-departure-display/blob/d81c0d8ec11bb7e9e71db2c4e806f77072798520/src/main.py#L400

Instead of 'Plat 88' which was intended as the largest space this text could ever take up, we could change it to 'Plat 888'. If you want to test it and submit a PR that would be welcome!