Demonstrate BUSY State (Usability Feature) (1 Viewer)

[patos]

Everyone knows the Sandclock in Windows. Why don't we have something in this way in Mediaportal to show when it is busy?

During WAF-Test my girlfriend complained a lot about MP hanging. I had to explain all the time that MP did not hang, it was simply was busy and she ought to wait for it. Anyhow I seriously understand her complains.

For the ones who know Apple's Frontrow, it shows you a spinning wheel when the program is busy. Perfect!

Another issue that is very annoying is the fact that Mediaportal batches all commands during this busy phases. For example if I hit OK to open the TV module and MP gets busy it stops responding. Sometimes I simply do not really know if it really received the command so I press OK again. Most of the times it will batch this command and execute an OK while being inside the tv module. The same when getting into movies module.

So, could you please take a look on that? It would be great if I could see when MP is busy and it would be also good not to batch commands while MP is busy.

Thanks a lot!

 

[wortelsoft]

Which version do you use?

As MP has a spinning wheel as wel, although it's not implemented everywhere. But the weather plugin has one for sure.

 

[hakuna]

I second this!
It is very well implemented in Weather, but couldn't it be a default thingie for all waiting things?

/Nico

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Yes nice idea.

It is that unknown wait that can be frustrating.

Knowing your keypress has been received and getting some acknowledgement would be great.

8)

 

[mzemina]

Too bad the developer doesn't have a method to know when a video has started from a stream (for example) it seems (at least for me) that waiting for a video stream to start is when I wonder if it starting or not, it just has a black screen and I wait (even with DSL). This is in the MusicVideo plugin.

 

[patos]

wortelsoft:

I am using latest SVN

mzemina

well, if video does not tell, maybe audio presence could? this would not be the first time developers got to be creative to implement something. :wink:

besides that, this problem does not just apply for opening videos. when starting some modules it will also take some time until they are fully open giving you the sense MP hung.