Improve the navigation and opening hidden menu (1 Viewer)

chefkoch

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    Do we plan a change related to the hidden menu, the info button on remotes and the context menu which is not available (anymore)? (i.e. in OnlineVideos)

    @morpheus_xx Maybe @sa_ddam213 can help with his xaml skills to
    • trigger the hidden menu when hovering the menu button only
    • and keep it open while being on the menu or the menu button
    • and hiding the menu when leaving the menu and the menu button again
     

    offbyone

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    A while back I added the "IsKeyboardFocusWithin" from Xaml to MPF. I also modifieed the titanium menu template a bit on my end to test this and it worked fine. Combining it with MouseOver we can achieve what you are asking ;) I have to dig around my dev PC later to see if I still have the modded xaml. But I also remember that morph said he likes the current explicit way of bringing up and hiding the menu more (though I don't :) ).
     

    chefkoch

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    Thanks for this file. I gave it a test and found the following:

    Navigation using the mouse becomes a bit tricky if you move the mouse within the area where the "menu" button is if the menu is hidden.
    --> Menu will be re-opened eachtime you move the cursor only a pixel, because it closes it, then the button is there again et voila: open it again.
    Is it possible to disable the triggers while IsMouseUsed?
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    Could we either hide or leave the button where it was initially and prevent it being focused?
    Selecting it does not do anything anymore.
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    Maybe the issues above could be solved if we replace the button by a label which is nicely styled and contains the following text "navigate left to open menu"
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    offbyone

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    Mouse Movement need a rework, I did it only for keyboard /remote useage which will be the primary input on most HTPCs. I didn't change anything related to mouse stuff (didn't know at the time if we would ever continue this road, so no efforts went into it).
     

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