boxee like scrolling feature

I know there have been discussions about this way back, but I have to say I really like how Boxee does this type of scrolling:



I know we're in a feature freeze and all, but maybe there's a chance to consider this in the future.

Trac it please in case there's no such ticket yet. Otherwise this might get lost in the forums.

I second this suggestion. It would be really cool!

Couldn't it be emulated using smart playlists?

Is there any type of code share between XBMC and Boxee teams or does Boxee just "license" XBMC code so the can sell and profit... and not give back to the XBMC community? If they do, my apologies, I just have not seen anything announced/posted publicly.

Hitcher Wrote:Couldn't it be emulated using smart playlists?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you could properly emulate the way I assume that works. Take the letter "G" for example. You could make a smart playlist that contains all movies beginning with the letter "G" and map a button with the label "G" to that playlist, but wouldn't you then see only movies beginning with "G' and no others? I assume the solution Jeroen mentions is only taking you to the "G" section of your entire library. Meaning you could still manually scroll to any other movie title and not be limited to only movies beginning with "G".

RockDawg Wrote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you could properly emulate the way I assume that works. Take the letter "G" for example. You could make a smart playlist that contains all movies beginning with the letter "G" and map a button with the label "G" to that playlist, but wouldn't you then see only movies beginning with "G' and no others? I assume the solution Jeroen mentions is only taking you to the "G" section of your entire library. Meaning you could still manually scroll to any other movie title and not be limited to only movies beginning with "G".

Yeah, the aim would be to stay in the same window and skip to the start of the movies starting with a particular character. Using smartplaylists would replace the entire window. Still, creative thinking

And actually I would change the behavior a bit from the Boxee implementation. In Boxee you scroll to the character and then have to confirm by selecting it. I would actually prefer to have the container scroll immediately when hovering on a particular letter.

Basically sort of a combination of a regular scrollbar and using <shift + character>, sms type navigation.

So, if there would be a way to perform the action <shift + letter> as an <onfocus> action, this could be emulated I think. Although a proper control for it would be prefered of course.

vdrfan Wrote:Trac it please in case there's no such ticket yet. Otherwise this might get lost in the forums.

Cheers, I will do that as well. Just thought some opinions by other skinners would be nice

Just had a play around with this and while only work when the button is placed over the list, as soon as you place the button outside the list it doesn't because no list is focused. But seeing as have already the JumpSMS/SHIFT+LETTER function built-in we just need a way to use it from another list control.

can't we trigger/fake keyboard presses in the skins, so that the ABC nav would just trigger a command for each letter?
*pseudo code*
onClick="focus(list);keypress('A');focus(self)"

Pieh would be the one to answer that but it sounds good to me.