On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 03:19 -0700, Michał Sawicz 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.
I don't like the menu thing because you might also want to show the EPG in other places as well. For example, if your in the player and you want to pop up the epg. Which one do you show? If you have a single EPG with different modes, you always just pop up the 'EPG' and in the mode last used. Kevin > > -- > Michał Sawicz <[email protected]> > >
