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Title: Theater View: scrolling a webpage with the remote?
Post by: Agonostis on December 10, 2006, 11:45:19 am

When i operate Theater View with my remote control, if I click the "News" button, i'm stuck at whatever I get to, i can't click links, scroll the page, etc.

Am I missing something?

Title: Re: Theater View: scrolling a webpage with the remote?
Post by: raym on December 10, 2006, 05:03:17 pm

Yeah I've wondered about this too. I really don't see the point of adding web page items in Theater View if you can't navigate them with a remote. I've done away with loading any webpages in Theater View for this reason.

Title: Re: Theater View: scrolling a webpage with the remote?
Post by: Agonostis on December 10, 2006, 10:53:15 pm

are you serious?  it really can't be done?

Title: Re: Theater View: scrolling a webpage with the remote?
Post by: Agonostis on December 11, 2006, 05:59:39 am

I guess I might ask "how do people use the web page functionality in theater view?"

Title: Re: Theater View: scrolling a webpage with the remote?
Post by: NickM on December 11, 2006, 06:28:42 am

All that would be required is for the right arrow to pass focus to the web window, then the up & down arrows would work.

That being said, the "News" function is the first thing that I have disabled from the Theatre view menu.  MC, Theatre View, music, films, TV are the antithesis of my efforts to get away from 'News'...

Title: Re: Theater View: scrolling a webpage with the remote?
Post by: Agonostis on December 11, 2006, 07:49:21 am

NickM:

Can you do this with MC as it is now?  Even when i get the keyboard out, i can't get the arrowkeys to scroll the website, tab around, etc, like i'd expect.  Can you advise how you've set it up?

By the way, i also disable the news part, but if I could get this to work like I want, I could access my ajax/girder-driven home-automation interface.  This would open a whole new world in MC for me.

Title: Re: Theater View: scrolling a webpage with the remote?
Post by: glynor on December 11, 2006, 08:34:29 am

Quote from: Agonostis on December 11, 2006, 05:59:39 am

I guess I might ask "how do people use the web page functionality in theater view?"

I don't because of this and sizing limitations.  Very difficult to read on my TV.

Too bad it doesn't use the "cell phone and PDA" formatted versions of pages somehow...