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<blockquote data-quote="fforde" data-source="post: 297946" data-attributes="member: 52082"><p>Ok, well the idea I had was basically you have a "filter" system. Basically just a way to break down your movies. The user could add a filter like Genre or Year and when added to the active filters list in the config, they would show up on screen, when you clicked the filter button. See the mock-up below. When you click Genre from the filters list, it changes to a list of all your available genres. Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, etc. You click one and your on screen list filters by your selection.</p><p></p><p>It woulnd't neccisarily have to be as skin dependent as my mock-up though. You could always have the user click the filter button and then fall back to a regular MediaPortal pop-up menu for the Filter list, then another for the selection. Not as sexy though.</p><p></p><p>And of course the third option is to do something similar to how MP-TVSeries handles Genres, just a text list. I veered away from this in the past but this might not be so bad if you could attach fanart to each selection. That could get tedious though and is very configuration dependent. One thing I really like about the plug-in now is it works so well strait out of the box.</p><p></p><p>And finally the filter types. I was describing <em>basic</em> filter types above, but I also want to do advanced filter types that allow you to categorize your movies however the hell you want. If you want to emulate the "Shares" configuration in other plug-ins, you could. If you wanted to group by decade you could, anything in the databse. Basically in the config screen you would create a new Advanced Filter, then create each selection one by one. You would give the selection a name and then fill out a dialog specifying the criteria to match for a movie to land in this category. You could say the filepath must be this. Or the Year must be > this and < that. And so on. Mostly this would be for power users, but there would probably be a few Advanced Configs setup out of the box. Like decade maybe.</p><p></p><p>It's a really rough idea, so I am looking for feedback. So what do you guys think of the skin based filtering thing. The popup menu? Or the text based list similar to TV-Series with genres?</p><p></p><p>And what do you think of the filtering system I suggested. I realize it's kind of hard to wrap your head around at first but trust me I would work on it until it was very user friendly...</p><p></p><p>So any thoughts?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fforde, post: 297946, member: 52082"] Ok, well the idea I had was basically you have a "filter" system. Basically just a way to break down your movies. The user could add a filter like Genre or Year and when added to the active filters list in the config, they would show up on screen, when you clicked the filter button. See the mock-up below. When you click Genre from the filters list, it changes to a list of all your available genres. Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, etc. You click one and your on screen list filters by your selection. It woulnd't neccisarily have to be as skin dependent as my mock-up though. You could always have the user click the filter button and then fall back to a regular MediaPortal pop-up menu for the Filter list, then another for the selection. Not as sexy though. And of course the third option is to do something similar to how MP-TVSeries handles Genres, just a text list. I veered away from this in the past but this might not be so bad if you could attach fanart to each selection. That could get tedious though and is very configuration dependent. One thing I really like about the plug-in now is it works so well strait out of the box. And finally the filter types. I was describing [I]basic[/I] filter types above, but I also want to do advanced filter types that allow you to categorize your movies however the hell you want. If you want to emulate the "Shares" configuration in other plug-ins, you could. If you wanted to group by decade you could, anything in the databse. Basically in the config screen you would create a new Advanced Filter, then create each selection one by one. You would give the selection a name and then fill out a dialog specifying the criteria to match for a movie to land in this category. You could say the filepath must be this. Or the Year must be > this and < that. And so on. Mostly this would be for power users, but there would probably be a few Advanced Configs setup out of the box. Like decade maybe. It's a really rough idea, so I am looking for feedback. So what do you guys think of the skin based filtering thing. The popup menu? Or the text based list similar to TV-Series with genres? And what do you think of the filtering system I suggested. I realize it's kind of hard to wrap your head around at first but trust me I would work on it until it was very user friendly... So any thoughts? [/QUOTE]
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