[mythtv] [PATCH] wrapping navigation for menus

Joseph A. Caputo jcaputo1 at comcast.net
Fri Feb 6 10:01:29 EST 2004


On Friday 06 February 2004 00:59, Isaac Richards wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 February 2004 11:05 am, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > The attached patch implements a rudimentary 'wrapping' behavior for
> > ThemedMenu.  It's kind of a hack; it doesn't handle PgUp/PgDown at
> > all, and it doesn't do anything to adjust the screen position of
> > the menu (i.e., if you 'wrap' back from the top of a single-column
> > menu to the bottom, the whole display shifts so that the current
> > item is now at the bottom).
> >
> > It's not elegant, but at least it relieves some of the tedium
> > associated with navigating menus with lots of items.
> >
> > Oh, and for multi-column menus (blue theme, e.g.), column wrapping
> > is also implemented.  Moving off the end of a column will also
> > increment/decrement the current row.
>
> I'm not sure if I want to apply this -- the menu used to work this
> way (long time ago), and I eventually decided that I really didn't
> like this behavior, so I removed it.

Ah yes, I vaguely recall that... however that was before all of the 
new-fangled single-column themes came onto the scene.  How about a 
version of the patch that only exhibited the wrapping behavior for 
single-column menus?  Or maybe make it a configurable option?

-JAC



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