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Originally Posted by philzgr8
Cheers Niall. Glad we don't need to continue down that road and only too happy to provide input. As I have said, I am well aware that you have constraints that probably make my suggestions implausible but none the less I hope there's at least something in there of use.
Cheers
Phil
P.S. As a matter of interest, I was wondering if you couldn't use something like the channel + and - buttons to cycle through the different images or animations. That might mean you could provide the BOM radar imagery for Aust without having to make any changes at all for your US clients.
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Thanks Phil,
Thats a great idea - and although I'm totally trying to avoid touching any of the playback controls (including channel, volume, stop/play/pause etc) - due to a lot of user potentially having a 'now playing' window going (with current tv/dvd/video/etc running) - potentially the way to go is to catch into the numeric or arrow keys in a similar manner to what you suggested. (and this way some direct shortcuts to image favorites could be provided directly from the main menu - and saved to automatically display on relaunch).
Also on the 'view image/radar' etc screen - there's definitely opportunity to catch all the directional buttons (ie. up/down/left/right) to allow for fast movement between the available images - similar to how v1 was done (and would actually make it more usable for users everywhere)..
Anyhow I'll definitely look at some of these options for the next revision - and am already (from yours and others suggestions) - getting a good feel for how to make it work better for everyone.
thanks again for the constructive feedback!.
Niall