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[dvdr]

Reason for asking for this:
I have been running Version 11 successfully in a complete home integration, controlling it with a touchpanel. It is one of those touch-sensitive ones, where you really have to press on the screen rather than just slightly touching it. After upgrading to version 12, the new theatre view is beautiful, but I cannot use it with the touch-panel anymore, since dragging and clicking is somehow strange - I never am able to do anything to really bring up the play-commands or scroll a list or whatever....
So: please add the old theatre view as an option (should be possible in configure theatre view, shouldn't it?)...
Thanks for considering, and please: give a quick answer, whether it is possible, considered or done within an update... Thanks!

[Matt]

The Theater View in Media Center 12 should work with a touch pad.

Try showing the Page Up and Page Down buttons in Options > Theater View.  That gives a nice way to scroll lists.

[dvdr]

Matt, thanks for answering - that helped!!!!!
Congrats for your continous improvements on MC. May I add one remark: please keep up your work and an eye on UPNP. The features, MC offers when working in "normal" mode would be the most desired features when working in the UPNP-domain. No other software including Twonky would offer as much features and user-friendlyness like MC - especially, when it comes to tag-support adn scripting of music-trees. Twonky is rudimentary when it comes to sorting large collections , especially for classical and jazz music - they don't even offer support of some of the important tags for this kind of music.
So: MC would be choice #1, if UPNP support (let's talk about Flac, and support of Media Renderers like the amazing LINN DS Series) would be enhanced. Give it a shot, please ;-)

Thanks!

[benn600]

Now HOLD on just a darn cotton pickin' minute!  I've been contemplating doing this same thing for months!  Put an LCD in the wall with a nice bessel, pushed up tight to the monitor with thick foam (snug sealed fit).  Then, below, near the ground, have a tasteful door that you can lock & open.  Open it and you'll find a hole in the wall for a thin computer with 2 ethernet ports & 2 power plugs.  Cables hanging down from the LCD...

So what monitors are you using?  I'm intrigued!

[dvdr]

Hi

I don't want to post a direct link, but go to Ebay Germany and do a search for

Touchscreen 8" 4:3 TFT LCD Monitor mit VGA AV Silber

That looks just like the one I am using - price has been about the same a few years ago. A little small screen sometimes (800x600 pixels native), but cheap, . There's tons of that one on ebay, and there's also bigger ones. If you're doing some research: don't look under computer related stuff, look out for monitors for in-car-movie...

An additional tip: I have one of those PDA-phones with Windows Mobile. I use that with NetRemote to control playback in other parts of the flat via WirelessLan. Pretty good software.