Remember last focused item doesn't work (1 Viewer)

[cmdrsamu]

After reinstalling MediaPortal with moving pictures everything works fine.
Today I noticed a problem.
After I switched into detail page of a movie and went back to the overview, the first thumbnail is focused not the thumbnail of the currently visited movie.
In general options this functions is enabled.
I have no idea why it stopped working.

Has anyone an idea?

 

[fforde]

So maybe you are experiencing a legitimate bug, btu I suspect this is because of two known limitations of the MediaPortal skinning engine. If I am wrong, please let me know.

So this normally only occurs in Filmstrip view and this only occurs after the movie list needs to be updated. If a new movie is added to the collection or if a movie's details have been manually updated by the user, the entire movie list has to be rebuilt. This is an unfortunate limitation of the MediaPortal facade control (what is used to list a whole bunch of stuff). It is currently impossible to insert an item in the middle of the list which creates issues when things need to be added or potentially moved around. The work around is to repopulate the entire facade (i.e. rebuild the list). This is something that is quite fast because we reuse the same GUIFacadeItems but this is what causes a flicker when stuff is being imported.

So normally in situations where we have to rebuild the list, once it is rebuilt we just manually reselect the last selected item. This does not work for filmstrip view though because the filmstrip facade control does not allow you to programmatically select an item. This again is a (pretty severe) limitation of the MediaPortal skinning engine.

If you think the scenario I am describing is not what is happening for you then we can take a closer look, otherwise you can petition the MediaPortal team to get these holes in functionality filled. I have asked several times in the past though and the general response is that no one on the MediaPortal team is really interested in working on the skin engine.

Sorry for the trouble..

 

[cmdrsamu]

Thats correct. I added a new movie and it was added to the thumbnail view while I was in there. But it was in the small thumbnail view not filmstrip. But now it doesnt matter which view I chose, in none of them will be the last visited detail item be focused.
Ok as I understood this is the reason why the last focused item dont work?
Is there anything I can do? Delete Cache files or something else?

 

[cmdrsamu]

Sorry it was my fault.
I use a remote control and EventGhost and I have two functions on the "back" button. The Back function of MediaPortal and the general key emulation of the backspace key. So I didnt know that you jump to the first item when you hit the backspace key.
Sry.

 

[fforde]

No worries. Glad you got it figured out!