by Colby on Fri Mar 24, 2006 4:18 am Well I know that Steven would rather do directX or fix Xnet & bugs, but there are some features that would be really great if we had. I have made a list of the ones important to me, so Steven if you could tackle them right away, beginning with #1 That would be great!. Feel free to print this post as a checkoff sheet. I also included some new ideas that will simplify Xlobby (#39-#43).
Top 50 Feature requests
1. How in the world do I make a toggle button? Custom switches? I think I asked for it years ago. And how would I make 4 state toggle?
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=15187#15187 or
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21179#21179 or
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
2. I need variables in custom searches
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4067#4067
3. I would like rollover /enter events for category items
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19967
4. I want a different selector for every category entry.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... light=4028
5. I would like it if all variables be able to work through a database.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... light=4067
6. I would like multiple events for a toggle button. ie. Play and Pause. Same button 2 events, and it toggles.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1920
7. The ability to link an image to a variable, like if value of genre = country image then value of %genre image% becomes skin://cowboyhat.png or value of rating= pg-13, image is pg-13 ,png etc.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=19993
8. I would really really LIKE if when I filter by artist or song it returns the album the song is on, with coverart and additional songs. NOT just a various albums with the one track listed. I HATE that. It is important to me to know what albums have what songs. I have no problem opening the album and selecting the song I just searched for from the track list.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17568
9. I would love to see a top layer variable.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17331#17334
10. I would like a multi disk album layout within xl.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3478
11. I would like to be able to download to an mp3 player from the playlist or even with Xlobby.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21278
12. How do I rename something from within the skin, such as a movie title, or a playlist name? I guess I don’t fully understand. If you could explain this please.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21575 or http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17945
13. I would like multi monitor system.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3864
14. I want to add an item to a database.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
15. I would like to a spider to xlobby.com
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=21057
16. I wish it were possible to datestamp db items with the %datetime>% variable
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... light=3181
17. I wish the event editor was connected to the skin editor, or even separate like hitting f3 or scroll lock would open it independently.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
18. A graphical volume bar for master volume would be nice.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
19. I wish Xlobby would ignore “A” and “The” for filters
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
20. I would like an event called set page or something that takes me to a certain category page.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
21. I would like an event called category: goto start of. The values would be a-z, 0-9, # and some special cases like period for start and double period for end of category. This event would let us create buttons to jump to the page where the value specified starts.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
22. I would like vertical scrolling
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... c&start=15
23. I want to link .txt documents in the directory:// file as variables. Then Xlobby could read the info in a database.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... c&start=15
24. I would like to be able to specify the exact pixel size for covers for categories.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
25. I would like to offset coverart in a category
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
26. I want to cntrl click buttons in the skin itself to select.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
27. It would be nice if hidden buttons were not navigate able until they are shown
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
28. Finishing date triggers would be great, or removing them all together
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
29. I would like to specify drop shadow colors and opacity for resources
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
30. I would like to link music database to txt files
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
31. I wish the event editor was connected to the skin editor, or even separate like hitting f3 or scroll lock would open it independently.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
32. I wish I could have a set position (x:,Y: ) event
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1832
33. I would like a down child resource
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3277
34. I want the taskbar hidden upon launch of XL
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2795
35. I would like a new event to make a button navigate able or not
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2439
36. I would like an add all command for categories. Then you could filter, add, filter, add etc.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2043
37. I would like an auto repeat button. Where the longer you hold it down the more it executes the event. Like next page or scroll or something.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1811
38. I would like to be able to have remote buttons control either events depending on page. Play on music page plays music; play on movie page plays movies etc.
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1373
39. I would like an event called category: goto entry with inputs category name, field, and value. This is like goto startof or filter or custom searches, except this event would let us create buttons to jump to the page where the entry specified starts.
40. I would like a checkbox or something for categories called continued. If selected then it would add a button instead of category entry for the last visible entry in the category. The button could be specified on the where we choose top layer, selector, etc. Here we would pick an image, text, or resource and get to assign an event (usually next page). If a category such as playlist, or albumdetails has multiple pages then the continue button would show up at the bottom of the entries. It could read more… or next or whatever but still be contained in the category. If the category list was short than it would be visible. Ideal for album tracks!
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.p ... highlight=
http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2316
41. I would like to be able to make a category selector image bigger than the entry ratio itself. Right now the largest the image can be is due to the spacing of the category. I would like it if there was a selector image checkbox called expansive that would be the size of the button literally. And if it overlapped other category entries, Good. It would just center in the center of the category.
42. I think there should be new things for Xlobby besides, categories, buttons, images, variables, and text. I would suggest a new thing called menus. A menu would be like a category in almost every way. Except it would have a menu editor, instead of a database editor. Here you would populate fields, set displays, and link to a skin button or resource. Then you could add enter, press, or exit events for menu items. Several skins already use databases and categories to make menus. Its overkill in my opinion. The menu xmls would save separate places then the database, or page xmls. Menus would also be able to use variables for display, (ie. Audioplayer Nowplaying, plugin>weather>today….)
43. I think there should be new things for Xlobby besides, categories, buttons, images, variables, and text. I would suggest a new thing called containers. containers would be valuable for show hide or toggling off/ on for a group of items. A container would be one a group of variables, buttons, categories or whatever that is all “grouped” together as one. You could use one show/hide event for the container then for all. You could also use containers to expand info that doesn’t need to always be shown. Basically it would be a multiselected group of items, under one name.
44. I want fader and balance controls for winamp’s equalizer.
45. I would like to have and event set button id
46. I would like an event called set button event. So we can set events on the fly or change events per button from within the skin.
47. I want a multiple select from the button list in the skin editor, maybe hold cntrl or something.
48. I want the ability to rotate images and buttons.
49. I would like a scrolling text only on enter state of a category or button.
50. I would like to have a windowed photo slideshow. Make a box in the skin and call its id: slideshow
51. I would like to have the ability to set the horizontal as well as vertical spacing of the cover art, instead of just an overall percentage.
52. I would like to launch a screensaver from within Xlobby, or if Xlobby is idol for a given time it launches.
53. I would like image or resource masks. That is if an image is behind a rounded rectangle mask, then the image would only show where the mask was. Coverart would be a good example. You could round the corners but never change the actual image. Also you could have buttons that weren’t always a rectangle footprint this way.
54. It would be nice to have transition animations for overlays.
55. I would like to revamp the skin editor to make it more cognitive and user friendly. I would recommend a matrix style tab system so you don’t with out redundancy.
56. I would like the resource manager revamped. Less clicking and easier to create, copy, and maintain.
57 I wish I could download skins from within Xlobby.
Thanx
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