2019-04-14, 04:36
Whenever a direction key is kept pressed, a rattling sound is heard, corresponding to the repeat generation of key events, which doesn't match the UI actions that are generated.
Playing the sound this way generates a sensation of laggy unresponsiveness, especially in slow-scrolling lists, such as the movies list.
In these cases, since the key events generate faster than the items are able to switch, multiple sounds are played per item change, so there's no audio-visual correspondence.
Furthermore, the key events are apparently being put into a buffer, the sound being played as they are consumed from there.
This causes that when the user releases said key, the action keeps repeating, the sound keeps playing, and the last few sounds even play without the item ever changing.
I'd also call for evaluation of whether this buffering is necessary. It's pretty tedious to scroll the list for a while and stop pressing the key where you want to stop, only to have the list stop 5 or 6 titles later due to buffered keystrokes.
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers!
Playing the sound this way generates a sensation of laggy unresponsiveness, especially in slow-scrolling lists, such as the movies list.
In these cases, since the key events generate faster than the items are able to switch, multiple sounds are played per item change, so there's no audio-visual correspondence.
Furthermore, the key events are apparently being put into a buffer, the sound being played as they are consumed from there.
This causes that when the user releases said key, the action keeps repeating, the sound keeps playing, and the last few sounds even play without the item ever changing.
I'd also call for evaluation of whether this buffering is necessary. It's pretty tedious to scroll the list for a while and stop pressing the key where you want to stop, only to have the list stop 5 or 6 titles later due to buffered keystrokes.
Hope this makes sense.
Cheers!
