Wall 2.0

hikaricore Wrote:I've been using the new wall view for the better part of the day now and have had no issues.
The way it currently works is exactly what I'd expect from a wall view, and honestly I've seen it this way in a few other skins.
Like I've already said limiting the user to one axis defeats the purpose of a view like this and turns it into yet another flashy view with no real benefit.

And my point still stands. If the wall only extends down by ONE row, what's the point of having that ONE row?

To give you something to bitch about obviously.

Very true!

But I still have yet to hear a good excuse.... or a reply other than someone using the word stupid.

I don't bitch or preach! I just bring forward thoughts and ideas and argue points in a light-hearted fashion. If nothing is ever offered or discussed than nothing is ever improved or fixed.

Take this pic as an example:



This is how alot of others deal with having the focused item from going off screen by shifting ONLY the focused item...Don't know why but I don't like the focused item popping up differently. Thats why I move the whole wall when you are on the top row, the far left moves 20px, and the first bottom 3. And having the wall move looks and feels cool/different...

Plus having the wall overstretch the screen keeps me from having to create fake thumbs on the top and bottom like before...Those were my thoughts while doing it

Ah, now I understand why you have the fourth row in there... It adds to the 'illusion' that the wall extends further down.

I think I've narrowed my issue with the row movement. It's that when you go from row 1 to row 2 it moves a fair amount, while moving from row 2 to 3 it doesn't move and then 3 to 4 it moves up once again but not as much as the first movement.

Would it be possible to change the movements of the row to be an equal amount for each shift from 1-2, 2-3, and 3-4. This might make it move and look a lot smoother.

The other issue I find is that when moving from column 3 row 4 to column 4 row 4 the covers move down again as if I had just moved up a row...?

So I spent a little time fiddling with the Wall View and I came up with the following.



I removed all info except for the flags (Speaking of which I think your missing a DVD Media Flag.) I also removed the static covers and extended the list indefinitely to the right, (to 10,000 actually but you get the point.) At the 6th column the wall moves left with each choice to the right. A gradient mask was added to show the covers as if they were disappearing into the distance, (straight right to left gradient as opposed to your horseshoe gradient. I found it faded out too much of the upper and lower covers.)

I have no idea how to host files so if you'd like to try it out let me know how I can send it to you or host it.

I'd be willing to look at it, if only to see how badly loading 3,000 movie posters at once bogs down a decent system.
Pastebin should do the trick since it's only one view and likely only one file.

I'll look at anything...I was wondering how far you can go with the width tag- 10,000? I'm curious about that. Will it run on XBOX

But yea host it, post it I'll take a look...

I'm willing to bet anything over a 50-100 would murder an xbox.