On February 18, 2008 at 09:20, Stealth X said...
i had considered this idea, but then decided it was a
bad one as then you cant hold down the cursor, so you
would have to go one selection at a time! same if you
had a press and hold, you could ony do it once then have
to press and hold again... i like to burn through the
list by holding down the cursor, or go super fast by holding
down page up/down.
C'mon, I thought I would have gotten a little more support than this. Actually, on my Motorola 3416 cable box (which I am not thrilled with as far as software/firmware) I have the P/H set for 1 second which gives me line to line scrolling with <1 second press, page to page scrolling with 1 second press and if you continue to press it goes into the speed scrolling.
Besides if it did not work on yours, you can always nest p/h macros to do one thing with an instant press, or another thing with a 1 second press, or yet another seperate thing with a 2 second press, etc. It would be easier to fine tune for speed though if we had more options like .5 seconds and 1.5 second options.
If your user can't handle that you can also insert beeps for notification and info/help pages, etc. This isn't the only app, just an example, nor would it always be for everyone but I would like the option.