Hidden Buttons and Navigating with a Remote

[MFan]

Steve,

I would like you to consider changing one action of a hidden button. Take the case where you have 3 buttons lined up from top to bottom. Further, suppose that the middle button is hidden. If you use a remote to navigate down from the first button to the third button, it will take 2 presses of the remote's down button. I would like to have it such that the hidden button would also be transparent to navigation, so that in the case above the middle button would be ignored and a single remote down button press would cause you to go from the first to the third buttons.

Is it feasible to implement this type of action?

Don

[Colby]

why not just use the navigation override? Make button one's down direction be button #3 and make button 3's up navigation be #1.

[dalanik]

Yes, but suppose that you UNHIDE the button (for some purpose)... the navigation override would STAY!!

I bumped into this some time ago when I wanted to create 2 sets of buttons underneath each other and show/hide each set depending on "exit button"... I finaly gave up because the nevigation was impossible...

D.

[gamejester]

That is why you need the navigation ON/OFF event

http://www.xlobby.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2439

When you hide a button you could then also turn off its navigation thus making a screen more dynamic.

Now for the touch screen users out there you would also need to disable/enable a buttons actions (click event, leave event, etc....) because currently a hidden none nav button can still perform an action if is at the front and clicked with a mouse or finger.

[MFan]

I agree that being able to set the navigation on or off would solve this problem.

Don