Hello again,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Mark Boyum <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@boyum.us">mark@boyum.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> When it asks "how many seconds to start earlier" you should give a POSITIVE<br>
> number e.g. 60 for 1 min earlier. I had understood by mistake that you need<br>
> a negative there (the control mistakenly allows this!!) and if you put -60<br>
> it will start 1 minute LATER.<br>
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</div>I'm not sure that I would say, "mistakenly". Negative numbers are<br>
used in quite a few of my recording rules as many of my son's programs<br><br></blockquote><div>It is clearly a matter of being precise in what is meant, because this is what makes a good user experience. A control cannot have text " ... seconds to start earlier " and allow negatives or positives. It should say "how many seconds to adjust the start time with" so the user can understand -60 is 60 seconds earlier, and +60 is 60 sec. later. A tooltip may also help at that point with additional explanation. </div>
<div>I know this because of painful experience, since due to known Greek 'precision' :), programmes never start at the exact time, and I _always_ have to modify the default settings to start 5 min before and end 5 minutes after, just to be on the safe side.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately, IMHO (and I've been using Myth since 0.17 circa 2005) in many places there are such 'dubious' texts that confuse the end user. The mythtv-setup is mostly plagued with this, but "setup" on frontend also has the same in various places.</div>
<div> </div></div>-- <br><br>Thanos<br>