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Jezz_X
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The problem was you get stuck in it with no way to get out.
Unless we go and change the whole way that xbmc interacts with the options buttons (make them a popup menu, which would trash all current skins probably) you have no way to get to things like View: , Sort: and so on because your always stuck in the middle on the panel
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Jezz_X
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so if you make back go to the menu how do you go up one directory level..... no matter how you do it you are going to need a new button mapped to get out of the panel and what happens when you only have 1 or 2 items in a folder. these things work and look great for many many items. but they fall down for just a couple
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Jezz_X
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so basically once a user changes to that view you are forcing them to be stuck with it forever in that folder because they have no way of changing it (naving to change view button) and also have no way to change the sort order and stuff. Unless they go up one folder which then of course changes the view for the wrong folder.
This what I mean by you would need an extra dialog and button to open it to change these things because they only effect the current visible folder not every folder
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That sounds completely unintuitive to me to be honest. Consider you navigating 5 levels deep using this view. You'd just click select 5 times to get there, now how do you get back? 10 hits of backspace?
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2010-01-02, 17:58
I appreciate y'all chiming in. I do have one newb question that I can't seem to locate an answer to in the wiki or on the forums. How do you 'bind a key' on a PC to a particular function ie. reloading the skin to check the changes?
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Ah-
I didn't think of doing it via that route.
Thanks for the heads up.
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Hitcher
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I've simply mapped F5 to reload the skin.