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Author Topic: Theater View Search Screen Orientation  (Read 933 times)

raym

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Theater View Search Screen Orientation
« on: November 22, 2006, 04:41:38 pm »

Is it possible to make the search/search list view in Theater View align horizontally across the screen rather than vertically? This would serve 2 purposes:-

1. You would need less room for the OSK itself as it could be layed out as a traditional keyboard and,

2. The search list would be the same width as any other list in Theater View and therefore it wouldn't chop off so much of the song titles etc (which can be confusing)

What do you think?

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Re: Theater View Search Screen Orientation
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2006, 04:55:37 pm »

If the keyboard was above the list, would pressing up on the top of the list scroll up or switch to the keyboard?

The way it is now, left and right navigate between things (buttons, search, list) and up and down scroll inside the list or buttons. 

This makes putting things left-to-right more logical than up-and-down.  Also, widescreen is all the rage, right?
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Re: Theater View Search Screen Orientation
« Reply #2 on: November 26, 2006, 06:17:27 pm »

Good point Matt. What about this then?....

Put a "Show/Hide Keyboard" button on the search screen so that users have the ability to toggle the OSK on and off. When off, this would then make the results list appear full-width and make reading the items much easier.

Thanks.
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