"SMS" style navigation

Mr.Mitchell · 2004-07-21, 18:58

When I am only using the arrows and Enter key to navigate through my music I often have the desire to navigate faster up and down the list. For example moving from Abba to ZZ-Top takes a while.

A solution could be to use SMS style navigating through a list. For example you are on artist ZZ-Top and press the 2 key (abc) the focus will then move to the first Artist that starts with an A press again and focus oves to first artist with a B etc.. pressing 2 keeps cycling through artists starting with a,b,c. To move to Z again I would only have to press 9 (wxyz) four times instead of arrow down 100+ times.

I did a quick test and it seems to be feasible. If more people are interested I will start implementing this myself after my holidays.

2004-07-21, 20:11

Sounds like a good idea, and a good solution too! The hauppage remote even have the letters on the numeric buttons!!

2004-11-06, 06:14

did this go anyhwere? I was thinking about the sms style keyboarding for entering text for searches and whatnot instead of the virtual keyboard, on a remote it would be a LOT faster.

2004-07-21, 18:58	#1 (permalink)
Mr.Mitchell Retired Team Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: the Netherlands Posts: 227 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	"SMS" style navigation When I am only using the arrows and Enter key to navigate through my music I often have the desire to navigate faster up and down the list. For example moving from Abba to ZZ-Top takes a while. A solution could be to use SMS style navigating through a list. For example you are on artist ZZ-Top and press the 2 key (abc) the focus will then move to the first Artist that starts with an A press again and focus oves to first artist with a B etc.. pressing 2 keeps cycling through artists starting with a,b,c. To move to Z again I would only have to press 9 (wxyz) four times instead of arrow down 100+ times. I did a quick test and it seems to be feasible. If more people are interested I will start implementing this myself after my holidays.

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2004-07-21, 20:11	#2 (permalink)
Anonymous Guest Posts: n/a	Sounds like a good idea, and a good solution too! The hauppage remote even have the letters on the numeric buttons!!

2004-11-06, 06:14	#3 (permalink)
Anonymous Guest Posts: n/a	did this go anyhwere? I was thinking about the sms style keyboarding for entering text for searches and whatnot instead of the virtual keyboard, on a remote it would be a LOT faster.