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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: nila on October 20, 2003, 07:52:41 am

Title: Resizing Panes
Post by: nila on October 20, 2003, 07:52:41 am

I personally would find resizing pages a HUGE help.

The number of panes I can use is limited not by the amount or size of the data being displayed but purely by the number of panes themselves - the more I make the more ALL of them are narrowed down meaning that creating 'grouping' levels means the next levels are truncated which is ANNOYING.


My favourite view scheme for songs is:

Year, Album Type (single artist, compilation, soundtracks), artist (grouped 1), artist, album (grouped 1), album

Both artist and album are truncated and the groups and year sit there with TONS of space.

I REALLY want genre in there too but cant even consider it at the moment :(


Would anyone else find resizing panes a HUGE benefit?


Also - I'd LOVE to be able to set sort order (ascending or descending) for the panes :)

Title: Re:Resizing Panes
Post by: Jaguu on October 20, 2003, 08:00:55 am

Yes, I suggested it a few times as well. Matt once replied  that it was quite tricky to do it, but I feel it would make MC9 to look more pleasant. Everything else is resizable except the panes.

Title: Re:Resizing Panes
Post by: graham131 on October 20, 2003, 08:40:38 am

Yes Yes Yes

Title: Re:Resizing Panes
Post by: LisaRCT on October 20, 2003, 08:56:25 am

It would be nice, but I get along OK as it is.

Title: Re:Resizing Panes
Post by: Deivit on October 20, 2003, 09:23:04 am

If it's tricky to do it, then I would be more than happy if only a tooltip was shown when hovering with the mouse over the truncated data on the panes, as it does in the tree. That would be enough for me at the moment.

Title: Re:Resizing Panes
Post by: dragyn on October 20, 2003, 10:42:21 am

I'd rather see it 'auto-size' the panes like the columns. Like if you have 'Rating', it's only 1 character wide and doesn't need all that space.

One thing that I wish there was would be to have the splitter bar remembered per view scheme. It's position is saved but it's for everything. Mainly for thumbnails vs. details view.