To solve this, I would add buttons to the top, bottom, left and right. The user navigates a "screen of buttons" and actions the "right" button to move to the right, rather than moving their "cursor" (potentially infinitely) to the right. ---- Keith Cirkel
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 2009-07-03, pią o godzinie 10:40 +0200, David McLeod pisze: > > --8<-- > > > So, what problems do I immediately see? > > > > Well, considering that Moovida uses an opacity technique to tell the > > user that additional things (e.g. bars of a list) can be scrolled to, > > I am not sure how to do this with an EPG guide like this. If you are > > a visual person you might understand what I mean. How do I do opacity > > changes on the 'grey bars' we use when they move to the left of the > > screen and tuck under the TV station logos? Those bars are going to > > be different lengths to represent different lengths of the TV > > shows...then we need to do the same technique for the right of the > > screen. Instinctively, I know this is going to look visually weird... > > but maybe, I might be able to solve this in Photoshop or by testing > > out some 'comps' to get this worked out...so for now I will continue. > > The current list modifies opacity of the whole item, right? The whole > list row / grid cell gets it's opacity reduced. What I would see > consistent with the rest of Moovida UI is a thin, constant-width opacity > gradient from top to bottom on both sides of the grid. There's one > problem with that... AFAIK we can't have opacity masks in current > pigment... > > --8<-- > > > Let me explain... (check out the orange arrows on the thumbnail > > sketch) I go up and down TV stations (imagine there are 100 or so), so > > that means the up and down buttons are taken... then I go left and > > right through the 'timeline'... that means the left and right buttons > > are taken. So, I have a problem now... I can navigate up to those > > buttons so the user can switch between the views! > > We discussed this with Kevin in one of our posts. He proposed that the > upper buttons could be accessible by going to the far left and left > again (that is if the farthest left available item is "now"). I don't > think that's a good idea. I'd rather have the two views separate in the > menu. Watch TV > it shows you 'now & then', Programme Guide > the full > fledged guide. > > -- > Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> >
