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Quickscreen - deal better with range values

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Confuseling:
For an option with a range of possible settings, rather than just on / off, I think there's an obvious way to improve the quickscreen.

Say I want to set option 'foo', which can be anywhere between -100 and +100. I set 'foo' to the top quickscreen option, then I open the quickscreen, and press 'up'. At the moment it just cycles through the values - cumbersome, and annoying when you miss. It would be much improved if it highlighted 'foo', then the left and right keys changed values in either direction. Pressing up, down or select would deselect 'foo', allowing you to pick something else. Obviously, if you picked one on the left or the right, you would use up and down to adjust.

I might try and write this myself (I've just set up a build environment), so any tips on approaches, or half baked code, entirely welcome. Equally, if you think it's a good idea, go ahead and write it - it's likely to take me months, if I ever manage to pull it off...

torne:
it's not quite what you asked for but did you know that if you set the same setting to two opposite quickscreen directions, the buttons will cycle in opposite directions already?

Confuseling:
I missed that one entirely as well...  ::) ;D

Sorry, and thanks...

torne:
Well, it's still not ideal; it takes up two of the four options then, and for some settings it cycles in a counterintuitive direction which cannot be changed (e.g. if you assign volume to up and down, up will make the volume *lower*). A better way to handle them would still be a good idea, but exactly what to do I'm not sure; having to select the option and then change it seems slightly inefficient to me; maybe when you press up, down should change to be the opposite cycling direction for that setting for a while, until you don't press either for a moment? Not sure...

bluebrother:

--- Quote from: torne on September 04, 2010, 03:29:33 PM ---having to select the option and then change it seems slightly inefficient to me

--- End quote ---

That would turn out into a user customizable menu holding only settings (ignoring the fact that the layout of the quickscreen is completely different to menus). However, since the quickscreen is completely counter-intuitive anyway (at least on several targets -- why on earth to I need to press a different button to leave it than I used for entering on my Ipod?) I would vote on removing the quickscreen completely anyway and replacing it with a user customizable menu.

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