Tanja wrote: > > > Duncan Webb schrieb: >> Tanja said the following, on 11.03.2008 00:34: >>> Stephen Rowles schrieb: >>> >>>> Why is there enter and select as different buttons, why are they used >>>> inconsistently? Sometimes select shows a sub menu, sometimes (TV >>>> guide) it >>>> shows the full description of the program and you have to press a >>>> different key to get the sub menu. Then on top of that there is a Play >>>> button which has a 3rd meaning, do we really need that many buttons? I >>>> could see the argument for 2, but 3? So far I have been unable to >>>> get what >>>> I would consider a sensible and easy to use key configuration without >>>> going in and changing the freevo plug-ins for things like TV. >>>> >>>> >>> Just to make that point clear: ENTER always should open the submenu, >>> whereas SELECT selects the first choice in the submenu. In that sense >>> you only need ENTER, but SELECT is a handy short cut. >>> >>> In the example of the TV guide, ENTER will open the submenu, whereas >>> SELECT will show you the full description (or start watching TV), >>> which you also could get by selecting the first entry in the submenu. >>> The same with PLAY and REC in the TV guide, you can reach both >>> functionalities by entering (ENTER) the submenu and choose them from >>> there, or you can use the shortcuts. >>> Thus you just need SELECT, ENTER, UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT and EXIT in >>> the TV guide, but if you have more buttons available on your remote >>> you can use them for the other tasks. >> >> >> If SELECT is a short cut then ENTER can still be used to play, record, >> etc. So couldn't SELECT no be mapped to an event? >> > > SELECT is in this case just a short cut for the first entry in the submenu, > you still need ENTER for seeing the whole submenu! > And you also need SELECT as extra key, because otherwise you cannot > choose an item in the menus! > > It might not be the best way to organize everything, but this is how it > works at the moment... > > Hopefully this makes it a little clearer.
Actually I know that you can't enter menus with the enter key, I'm not sure quite why this is not possible at the moment, shame as this would make life easier with remotes that have only a few buttons and make the interface a bit more consistent. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
