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blgentry:
In MC, when you move the mouse to the top of the screen, during full screen video playback, a timeline appears.  In previous versions of MC, as you click on this timeline, you can jump the video position to where you want it and the timeline stays in place.  This is very helpful as it may take several tries for you to find the spot on the timeline that you are trying to jump to.

In later versions (at least MC28 and MC29), the timeline still works, but it immediately disappears when you click on it to jump time.  In order to try again, you have to wave the mouse around a bit in order to make the timeline appear again.  Then you can try once more.

Is this behavior controllable with an Option?  If not, would you consider bringing back the older behavior?

Thank you,
Brian.

edbro:
I have also found the controls to be problematic. Sometimes I have to bounce the cursor off the top of the screen several times just to get it to appear. Sometimes it doesn't. I'd like to see the control dialog appear whenever the mouse is moved anywhere on the screen, similar to VLC behavior.

bob:
It's probably just the timeout not being used.
The old code was broken in that it didn't display the help text when the screen first started.
I'll take a look when I get a chance. Bump this if you don't hear back in for a while..

blgentry:

--- Quote from: bob on March 14, 2022, 12:10:45 pm ---It's probably just the timeout not being used.
The old code was broken in that it didn't display the help text when the screen first started.
I'll take a look when I get a chance. Bump this if you don't hear back in for a while..

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"Help text" ?  Do you mean the timeline that appears at the top of the screen?  That's what I'm trying to reference.

Thanks,
Brian.

bob:

--- Quote from: blgentry on March 14, 2022, 02:07:58 pm ---"Help text" ?  Do you mean the timeline that appears at the top of the screen?  That's what I'm trying to reference.

Thanks,
Brian.

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No, the text that shows up briefly when you first start playing a video the first time since MC29 was started.

We just did a bit of testing here and that timeline mouse interaction is the same as in windows for us.
If you leave the cursor on the timeline it stays up for about 5 seconds, if you move it away it closes the timeline immediately.

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