On Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:02:15 +0200, Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> wrote: > Dnia 2009-07-04, sob o godzinie 09:36 +0200, Tony Ducrocq pisze: >> You can view 5 programs at a time in this example but I don't draw >> all. >> If there is more than 5 programs you can go right an left to view >> them. If you are going to the right to a program who start at 9pm then >> the time bar with hours move automatically. > > Ah so it actually is a flat list... I meant 4 programmes as in shows, > not channels. Now I understand. I'm afraid there're two big problems > with that approach: > 1) 2 weeks, 120 channels, ~30 shows a day. That's ~7200 entries in one > flat list. A lot.
Yeah, the guy has gotten close to a interesting solution. Let me show you on Monday (sketches and notes are at work). > 2) What if I want to know just what's on channel X? > In the solution I hope to get time to writeup Monday (for me, Mondays are crazy at Fluendo...meetings etc). Each channel had a 'column' like the Main Menu... within each column was a list that had an entry for every show coming up for that channel and the time it started. To go to the next channel and browse its upcoming schedule, you just pressed right, then moved up and down within the list. This solution is devoid of having a 'bar' and its length represent time (something that, would be a new widget to build and filled with a few complications inside teh contruct of the UI). instead you can compare the start time one show, against the start time of the next one in the list, and you can see how long the show is on for. >> > That view does not give visual info on how long the programme is and >> if >> > it's running - how long 'til it ends. >> >> I've written some informations but it can have more, or less ... > > Not 'written' but graphic. In a grid EPG cells have width respective to > the length of the show and there's an indicator (usually a vertical > line) of 'Now'. You can thus easily see how long will a show last > without reading calculating trying to read and calculate it. > Yeah, but, the ability to do width to represent time is a BIG problem in Moovida and producing a traditional EPG. Maybe I can do a quick comp one evening to show you all what I mean. Aside from creating a widget to create it, no masking at the moment in pigment... there is a bit of a visual problem to overcome. >> > I think there's too much space wasted in this view. >> >> The wasted space is for restrict bars but I don't draw them for now. For me, I prefer 'wasted' space :) - if everything is usable, communicate well and it can do it without having to take up space, then great! Think of it as a line of code, why wrote 100 lines if it can be done in 2? > > Restrict? As in channels? Or? > > -- > Michał Sawicz <[email protected]>
