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---+!! File Browsing by Alphabet (%RED%PROPOSAL%ENDCOLOR%)

(iriver only)<br>
Enabled by clicking the joystick.(SELECT)<br>
Disabled by clicking the joystick again (SELECT)<br>
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While enabled, the file selected is centered in the screen<br>
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Once enabled:<br>
Up: Go to the previous letter of the alphabet<br>
Down: Go to the next letter of the alphabet<br>
Right: Lock the previously selected letter in place, and move the cursor to the next letter.<br>
Left: Go to the previous letter, if/when possible<br>
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-- MichielVanDerKolk
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This would work for all bitmap players, but is much more involved than the above. It should be a completely new file-listing mode.

I have another suggestion that isn't really anything like this, but could also be called "BrowseByAlphabet". It would require more work, and I'm not really capable of doing this work, but I thought I'd put my thoughts here. The idea is to have the regular filebrowser, but only show files starting with a certain letter - this letter can then be chosen from a column next to the filebrowser. Like so:
<verbatim>
+---+---------------+
| A | Catch.mp3     |
| B | Cell.mp3      |
| C | Change.mp3    |
| D |>Challenge.mp3 |
| E | Close.mp3     |
| F | Cold.mp3      |
| G |               |
+---+---------------+
</verbatim>
This is the browser set on C. If the user then presses left, the marker is set on C, and he can move up/down to get other songs shown. This would probably be particularly useful for the DB browser, where you're bound to have very long lists of songs/artists/albums.

Pressing left while in the letter-column would take you one folder up.

-- JonasHaeggqvist

r4 - 23 Sep 2005 - 14:39:58 - JonasHaeggqvist