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More => Old Versions => Media Center 11 (Development Ended) => Topic started by: Richard Berg on April 20, 2004, 01:31:23 am

Title: Left column made easier to click
Post by: Richard Berg on April 20, 2004, 01:31:23 am

I'm usually not slow with picking up UI idioms, but I just now figured out why it was so hard to click on items on the left (playing now, audio, playlists...).  When switching views I'd click and sometimes it would go, sometimes it took many tries, often correlating with expanding the '+' first...  Turns out, as you all must know, you have to click on the actual text!

If that's a conscious design choice, then you should use something other than an extended bar to indicate selection, since it implies that the blank space it fills is useable.  My preference of course would be for it to act like virtually every other vertical list in the Windows paradigm :)

Title: Re:Left column made easier to click
Post by: cascius on April 20, 2004, 03:20:22 am

Hi Richard, I just tested that and it seems to work fine on my version of MC. If you don't have the latest version you should probably upgrade as in the one I have (10.0.117) clicking the + sign does work.

-Cascius

Title: Re:Left column made easier to click
Post by: jj.oneil on April 20, 2004, 03:38:05 am

Not tested & may be totally wrong but does it depend on which skin you use?

JJ

Title: Re:Left column made easier to click
Post by: Richard Berg on April 20, 2004, 04:59:07 am

No, it is not dependent on skins.

Cascius, I think my explanation of the discovery process confused things.  I'm saying that clicking in either red circle won't move the focus, even though the column-width blue highlight implies that it should.

(http://richardberg.net/bin/temp/noclick.png)

Interestingly enough, right-click works.

Title: Re:Left column made easier to click
Post by: cascius on April 20, 2004, 05:03:13 am

You're right Richard, I had misunderstood what you were saying. The way it currently works doesn't bother me but i guess it wouldn't hurt to be able to also click where you drew your circles.

JJ, it's not dependent on skins at all, i second that.

-Cascius

Title: Re:Left column made easier to click
Post by: Richard Berg on April 20, 2004, 09:46:04 am

It doesn't bother me /now/, but it's an unintuitive quirk in a generally well-designed GUI.

Title: Re:Left column made easier to click
Post by: Matt on April 20, 2004, 10:01:50 am

Thanks for the idea.  It'll be changed next build.