[mythtv-users] 0.27 mythcenter theme: cannot scroll up from the top any more

[Zig]

On 12/8/2013 7:26 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> IMHO, scrolling backward from A to Z is a UI no-no: and it's no wonder
> any well thought-of UI doesn't allow you to do so...
>
> It's even worse in myth theme showing the media in a grid format.
>
> You never know where you are in the list, and you can find yourself
> moving to the top of the list when it "appeared" you were right in the
> middle.
>
> confusing as!
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I agree that scroll wrapping is confusing in the grid formatted themes, 
especially when the highlighted entry stays put (centered) and the list 
is what moves sideways - you don't get any feedback that you've reached 
the end and wrapped around.

In the Mythcenter-Wide theme that I modified, there is feedback that the 
wrap around is occurring.  When scrolling upwards (backwards) the 
highlight moves to the top of the list (top of the screen) and stays at 
the top while scrolling upwards.  When the top (beginning) of the list 
is reached and you do one more scroll, the highlight jumps to the bottom 
of the screen, and if up-scrolling is continued the highlight marches up 
with the list standing still, until it is back to the top of the screen, 
then the list starts moving again, under the highlight.

When scrolling down the same jump occurs when the end of the list is 
reached, the highlight jumps from the bottom of the screen to the top of 
the screen, indicating a wrap has occurred.  As long as one is aware 
that the screens are wrapable, the wrap is obvious.

One scenario where this is useful is when you are trying to avoid using 
"Live TV".  Say you automatically record the news every night and want 
to start watching it shortly after it starts.  The "watch recordings" 
screen is normally set up to display the oldest shows first, so you can 
watch a series in the correct order, but this doesn't work for 
near-liveTV where you want to watch the most recent stuff.

So you enter the "watch recordings" screen, which you have set to open 
up to "All Programs". All you  need to to is arrow once to the right to 
get to the list of _everything_ you have ever recorded (oldest first) 
then arrow up once (to wrap to the end) and you're at all of the most 
recent recordings - which are the three in-progress network news shows 
(or any other near-live show that you are recording).  That's all it 
took, two clicks.  No scrolling down to try and find NBC Nightly News or 
ABC or CBS. All the current stuff is right there.

I find it quite useful.
Ziggy







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