[In v3.1] Support for more than one letter to search a title on the movie wall
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 7:01 am
In MyMovies or JRiver, we can type up to 3 letters to quickly locate a title on the movie wall.
With CMC, it seems to be limited to one letter, which doesn't work on a 3200+ titles collection as you can have hundreds of titles starting with the same letter.
So is there any way you could implement the following behaviour:
- Once we've entered a letter, if another letter is entered right away, consider it as the second letter of a title.
- Of course you need to handle the case where the seeked letter isn't the first one on the remote. So for example, if I want "n" on a remote, I have to press the "6" key twice. So if the second letter comes from a different remote key, it can be accepted as the next letter in the title. Otherwise it should be assumed it's the actual letter we're after, until there is a pause of x seconds.
- The different letters are displayed to show the string used as it's being built
- After a longer pause of y seconds, stop displaying the search string and consider a new letter as the first letter of a new search.
This is pretty much standard behaviour for a quick search. You can see how jRiver or the MyMovies MCE plugin do it.
It's of course important that it works with a remote (using a limited number of number keys to enter letters), not only with a keyboard.
With CMC, it seems to be limited to one letter, which doesn't work on a 3200+ titles collection as you can have hundreds of titles starting with the same letter.
So is there any way you could implement the following behaviour:
- Once we've entered a letter, if another letter is entered right away, consider it as the second letter of a title.
- Of course you need to handle the case where the seeked letter isn't the first one on the remote. So for example, if I want "n" on a remote, I have to press the "6" key twice. So if the second letter comes from a different remote key, it can be accepted as the next letter in the title. Otherwise it should be assumed it's the actual letter we're after, until there is a pause of x seconds.
- The different letters are displayed to show the string used as it's being built
- After a longer pause of y seconds, stop displaying the search string and consider a new letter as the first letter of a new search.
This is pretty much standard behaviour for a quick search. You can see how jRiver or the MyMovies MCE plugin do it.
It's of course important that it works with a remote (using a limited number of number keys to enter letters), not only with a keyboard.