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<blockquote data-quote="MariachiElf" data-source="post: 54992" data-attributes="member: 20753">patrick,My question for the associations UI is this:You click the options for a Video and in addition to &quot;Look up in IMDB&quot; and the other options, you get &quot;Add a Tag&quot; ( I know this confuses things with other metadata tags but just go with me here).You then get a list of all the possible input devices suitable for this use (e.g. RFID Reader, Keyboard/Remote, Bar Code Scanner, etc).You pick one, let's use RFID Reader.What you'd expect is a popup saying, please swipe the RFID Card you'd like to associate with this Movie, you'd swipe the card and voila you're done.This means that UI Plugins have a way to interrogate the list of input devices currently hooked up in MP as well a way to tell the input plugin &quot;The next thing the end user is going to do is give you the tag for this Media Element&quot;.Ok, how's this, each input process plugin is responsible for implementing a minimal UI to guide the user through inputting a &quot;Tag&quot; when called upon by a UI Plugin.&nbsp; So UI Plugin selects the input device, and calls a function along the lines of:inutDevice.AssociateTag(mediaElement)The inputDevice is then the thing that puts itself in the learning mode and pops up the UI messages specific to it:&quot;Please enter the number with the remote control&quot;or &quot;Please scan the bar code&quot;or &quot;Please swipe your tag&quot;etc.--------------&nbsp; Another method for Associations below ----------To help with usability I think there should be another view that is &quot;learning mode only&quot; for a particular inputDevice here you'd get a list of all Media Elements.&nbsp; You'd choose one and swipe (or type, or scan, etc), the UI would move you to the next one, and you swipe, next, swipe, and so on.&nbsp; You could of course navigate up and down to select the one you want.That way you can quickly go through many Media Elements without, having to nagivate, select, select, swipe, back out, select, select, swipe, back out, and so on.Thoughts anyone?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MariachiElf, post: 54992, member: 20753"] patrick, My question for the associations UI is this: You click the options for a Video and in addition to "Look up in IMDB" and the other options, you get "Add a Tag" ( I know this confuses things with other metadata tags but just go with me here). You then get a list of all the possible input devices suitable for this use (e.g. RFID Reader, Keyboard/Remote, Bar Code Scanner, etc). You pick one, let's use RFID Reader. What you'd expect is a popup saying, please swipe the RFID Card you'd like to associate with this Movie, you'd swipe the card and voila you're done. This means that UI Plugins have a way to interrogate the list of input devices currently hooked up in MP as well a way to tell the input plugin "The next thing the end user is going to do is give you the tag for this Media Element". Ok, how's this, each input process plugin is responsible for implementing a minimal UI to guide the user through inputting a "Tag" when called upon by a UI Plugin. So UI Plugin selects the input device, and calls a function along the lines of: inutDevice.AssociateTag(mediaElement) The inputDevice is then the thing that puts itself in the learning mode and pops up the UI messages specific to it: "Please enter the number with the remote control" or "Please scan the bar code" or "Please swipe your tag" etc. -------------- Another method for Associations below ---------- To help with usability I think there should be another view that is "learning mode only" for a particular inputDevice here you'd get a list of all Media Elements. You'd choose one and swipe (or type, or scan, etc), the UI would move you to the next one, and you swipe, next, swipe, and so on. You could of course navigate up and down to select the one you want. That way you can quickly go through many Media Elements without, having to nagivate, select, select, swipe, back out, select, select, swipe, back out, and so on. Thoughts anyone? [/QUOTE]

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