2014-06-19, 17:21
Hi Guys,
I would like to duplicate the idle animation that occurs in the AppleTV list view when there has been no user interaction for a set time. That is after about 30 second of inactivity, the Icon for the currently hi-lighted list item fades and is replaced with random icons of the same type scrolling down and across from the top middle of the screen to mid way down the left side of the screen. If you have a gen 2 AppleTV you would know what I'm trying to describe.
Anyway my thoughts on how to go about this would be to use <autoscroll>true</autoscroll> on a list that I had populated with icons via a <content> tag and then animate the icons as they scroll thru the list. The issue I have with this is I can't come up with a way to switch focus from the main list to the list of icons (and back again when the user interacts with the system again).
Now I don't want to lose the main list altogether, I just want the static icon for the current main list item to fade and be replaced with the animated icons from the new list to display instead when the system is idle for a period.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to shift focus like this, or am I barking up the wrong tree as to how to achieve this idle animation?
Your help and/or ideas would be greatly appreciated
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)
I would like to duplicate the idle animation that occurs in the AppleTV list view when there has been no user interaction for a set time. That is after about 30 second of inactivity, the Icon for the currently hi-lighted list item fades and is replaced with random icons of the same type scrolling down and across from the top middle of the screen to mid way down the left side of the screen. If you have a gen 2 AppleTV you would know what I'm trying to describe.
Anyway my thoughts on how to go about this would be to use <autoscroll>true</autoscroll> on a list that I had populated with icons via a <content> tag and then animate the icons as they scroll thru the list. The issue I have with this is I can't come up with a way to switch focus from the main list to the list of icons (and back again when the user interacts with the system again).
Now I don't want to lose the main list altogether, I just want the static icon for the current main list item to fade and be replaced with the animated icons from the new list to display instead when the system is idle for a period.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to shift focus like this, or am I barking up the wrong tree as to how to achieve this idle animation?
Your help and/or ideas would be greatly appreciated
Wyrm (xTV-SAF)