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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/8/2013 7:26 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard
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<pre wrap="">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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I find it quite useful.<br>
Ziggy<br>
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