2004-06-11, 10:58 AM
Hi,
Yesterday I finally received my touchscreen that I like to use to control my HTPC. When playing around with it, I noticed that a touchscreen is handy with GBPVR. But there are a couple of points where some minor modifications would make it a lot better in combination with a touchscreen:
- add an arrow button on the EPG screen to move further and backwards in time and up and down.
- ensure there are back and main-menu buttons on all sub-menus. For the standard gbpvr modules this is well done, many plugins lack these buttons.
- in particular for the jukebox plugin: a button to move up one folder, and a stop button. Now I have to start another piece of music from within the music library and stop that one to stop the jukobox (or use the remote).
- pictures plugin: tap the screen to advance one picture
- volume up and down controls on the main menu(?)
- when playing a movie (I use the tv-out of the pvr350) it would be convenient to leave buttons to start/stop/pause/FFW/FBW/Vol-up/Vol-dwn on the monitor output (now only black with a message in it).
- queue button on the menu of the music library. Then I can select a song and press queue to have it appended.
I assume more ideas will pop up when playing with it further.
Greetz,
MaBo
Yesterday I finally received my touchscreen that I like to use to control my HTPC. When playing around with it, I noticed that a touchscreen is handy with GBPVR. But there are a couple of points where some minor modifications would make it a lot better in combination with a touchscreen:
- add an arrow button on the EPG screen to move further and backwards in time and up and down.
- ensure there are back and main-menu buttons on all sub-menus. For the standard gbpvr modules this is well done, many plugins lack these buttons.
- in particular for the jukebox plugin: a button to move up one folder, and a stop button. Now I have to start another piece of music from within the music library and stop that one to stop the jukobox (or use the remote).
- pictures plugin: tap the screen to advance one picture
- volume up and down controls on the main menu(?)
- when playing a movie (I use the tv-out of the pvr350) it would be convenient to leave buttons to start/stop/pause/FFW/FBW/Vol-up/Vol-dwn on the monitor output (now only black with a message in it).
- queue button on the menu of the music library. Then I can select a song and press queue to have it appended.
I assume more ideas will pop up when playing with it further.
Greetz,
MaBo
ASUS pundit, pvr 350, celeron 2600, 512 MB, 160GB HD, winXP Pro, 12" touchscreen