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will take a look.
i've fixed the radio button on settings menus - just waiting for dev cvs to come back online.
i'm also going to change the way the effects transforms are done so that stuff like rotations/zooms are easier to handle in the future. hopefully it won't change things too much.
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a <spinfont> would keep it nice and tidy... save the font changing when changing from list to thumb etc...
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new transform system is in cvs. you now have effect="rotate". more info will be in the manual shortly, but it takes the same form i mentioned above (angles are in degrees, measured counter clockwise from horizontal.)
i've also fixed the sliding out of thumbs/lists etc (the problem was the items were being cleared too early.)
will look at <spinfont> - agreed that everything else is there, so why not this.
i have some ideas for the multi-line labelling. my idea is to have a <multiline>true</multiline> tag that then just does as many lines are necessary in order to fit the string into the width. words will be broken at spaces only, so some may still go outside the usual range. sound ok?
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smokehead: you misunderstand - that wasn't in reference to the color/info label query at all. i've decided to not change the label system at this point (ie it won't go in for 2.0).
what i was referring to was a method to automatically split information over more than one line if you guys want it.
this is now in cvs. you specify <wrapmultiline>true</wrapmultiline> and make sure you have <width> specified, then if the label is too long for the width it will be split on to multiple lines by breaking the label up at any spaces.
see myweather.xml in cvs for an example.
note that this is now compulsory for myweather labels - there is no longer and "automatic" line breaking in the my weather code.
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and now a request from me:
i want to add a simplified network share setup dialog for 2.0, assuming we can get it done in a short enough time frame (i'm thinking a week).
my current thinking is as follows:
1. a spin control to select the protocol.
2. a button control for the machine name/ip address. when pressed it pops up the keyboard for entry. on left and on right it cycles through the previous options.
3. a browse button so that once there is enough info (xbmc will know this) the user can browse to the particular folder they want the share to be.
4. username and password buttons that act like number 2 (for ftp/smb shares) - we could have these in a separate dialog that pops up if the share isn't authenticated, rather than have it on this dialog (would require some ftp code changes, but nothing too bad probably).
5. a checkmark/radio button for "remember this user/password" for smb shares.
your input will be greatly appreciated. the idea is to make it as easy as we can to input share information. thus the idea of previously used values as to be there for quick lookup - i'm not sure how best to present this though. ideally it'd be something that showed up as you entered it (like the drop down list from edit controls on windows) but obviously the less code we have to do the better.
let me know.
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my suggestion is two fold...
don't have a step-by-step wizard, takes too long. use an entry form... have everything on a single screen that you can manually navigate to and fill in quickly. once you "submit" the entry, it shows up in a list below the entry form. basiclaly a split screen, form on top, input entries below.
allow selecting existing shares from the list with options to edit, delete and copy. the copy button would make quick work of simular setups that only need one thing changed (like the folder name when the server and password and such are all the same).
I'm not an expert but I play one at work.
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folder name isn't an issue - this dialog is called from the "add network share..." item on the filebrowser, where all previous successful share attempts will also show up anyway, and be browseable. the idea is you add the network location in this dialog we are building - the actual share folder (or subfolder) is found using the filebrowser.
i agree with the sentiment of as much info on the same page as possible, but not too much as it gets confusing for users. a balance between speed and number of items might be a trade off. i kinda like the idea of previous items being in a list though, but imo keeping the list to just include the items valid for the current entry is what is needed.
eg
item | previous entry 1
| previous entry 2
item | previous entry 3
|
item |
the list on the right gets updated as you change items on the left - sound like a reasonable solution? this doesn't really apply to password though, but as it's associated with username it can auto-fill in with that.
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dont forget the port number!