by Twit on Sun Mar 28, 2004 6:23 am Please take into consideration the following before flaming me:
1 - I have no artistic talent what so ever ,so everything is 'borrowed'.
2 - My wife is a technophobe so it must be really easy to operate.
3 - There is no mouse or keyboard at all on my htpc.
4 - It operates via girder.
5 - My remote has the play/pause/skip etc buttons on it.
6 - It also has a playlist and nowplaying button.
7 - It also has filter buttons on it and reset.
8 - At the main menu screen i enter a 4 digit code to get to the exit screen - prevents little fingers from and accidents.
9 - It outputs to a below average 74cm TV. If i make the text too small you cant read it. Same goes for album covers.
10 - If its green its for information and if its red its where the "cursor" currently is.
On my music screen I use the set database command to change databases on the fly (on a layover). Does anyone know how to put the current 'set database' in a text box, so i can see what the currently loaded database is?
MAIN MENU:
I have a button to playlists as this is the wifes favorite screen to use.
MUSIC SCREEN:
Don't bother with arrows as the covers scroll when they are "highlighted" and you go left or right.
MUSICVIEWER SCREEN:
Pretty standard. I have a back button on my remote.
PLAYLISTS SCREEN:
Dead easy to use - wifes favorite screen.
KIDS MOVIES:
I have a small seperate remote. It has a big red button on it which the kids push to jump straight to this screen. It has a stop movie button and 0-9 buttons. They push the red button and then the number of the movie they want to watch. They are 3 &5 years old so had to be simple.
Later
Simon.
