Up a level as a catergory item

by **S Pittaway** on Tue May 02, 2006 10:07 am

For directory structure category displays i think it would be more intuative to have the first item in the list be a "up a level" entry.

When people use xlobby at my house they never knopw how to go back a level when (for example) the are looking at photos.

Also it would free up a button on the skin...

I just kicked a screenie off xbmc what shows exactly what i mean.

http://xbmc.sourceforge.net/imgs/xbmc_a ... yhem16.jpg

by **S Pittaway** on Tue May 02, 2006 10:17 am

Thiniking about it a bit more, what i am really asking for is an option to display "up a level" and have an event linked to it inside a catogory.

That would le me do thinks like click on a group, select an album, jump into the track listing do stuff, then click .. to go back to the albumns, then .. back to the groups.

ie,

start on
http://xbmc.sourceforge.net/imgs/xbmc_a ... yhem16.jpg

drill to
http://xbmc.sourceforge.net/imgs/xbmc_a ... yhem09.jpg

then back up to
http://xbmc.sourceforge.net/imgs/xbmc_a ... yhem16.jpg

Hope this makes sense

by **badubo** on Tue May 02, 2006 11:44 am

by **dalanik** on Tue May 02, 2006 11:46 am

Yes, this is logical, but I'd like the option to turn it off/on, just in case - it wouldn't apply to all categories....

D.

by **S Pittaway** on Tue May 02, 2006 2:31 pm

Yep, thats what i ment in the second post.

by **S Pittaway** on Thu May 04, 2006 4:40 pm

my wife cant get the up a level button into her head so this would really make my life easier!

by **S Pittaway** on Wed May 17, 2006 6:58 am

by **S Pittaway** on Tue May 30, 2006 1:23 pm

common peeps, i cant beleieve that only 3 of us would find this usefull?

isent it like this by default on medio/media-portal/xbmc/windows-mc?

any new users find it a bit wierd having back buttons?

Sean

by **rorsdors** on Tue May 30, 2006 4:11 pm

You can do it with music by using custom search

eg custom search of audioplayer>now>%artist% and go to category screen will go back to albums of artist nowplaying

Have a look at my skin - Sids jukebox - if you click "play it" on the random screen it takes you to the album tracklist and in juke mode, "add" does the same thing.

HTH

by **S Pittaway** on Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:57 am

i guess that this is for another topic?

by **S Pittaway** on Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:26 am

by **S Pittaway** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:09 am

ill keep bumping untill someone says sod off

by **hvs69** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 5:25 pm

by **P3rv3rt B3ar** on Mon Jun 26, 2006 10:38 pm

hvs69 wrote:+1

oh dont encourage him

by **S Pittaway** on Thu Jul 06, 2006 2:23 pm

and again