Context sensitive help

[Jaggy]

I did try to see if this feature could be added as a plugin before posting as a wishlist item...

The Boss has mentioned (& more than mentioned) that one big failing with GB-PVR & now NextPVR is that it doesn't have a help screen when you are using it..... on asking her what exactly she was thinking it turns out that it is just the same thing as the help screens in SSPlus, the keymapping & yeah I would also find it useful as I often forget the actual keystrokes for a particular not often used feature.

I have held off posting anything on the wishlist thread (up until now) but on thinking about it a "Help" plugin may make more sense & it shouldn't (from my "not able to do it" point of view) be all that much work..... thoughts??

From the replu I got it appears that it is not shouldn't (from my "not able to do it" point of view) be all that much work as it seems there is no way to do it as a plugin...... bugger...

So any chance of a feature (or a way to do it as a plugin) like this??

[psycik]

But since teh system is designed to be used with a remote, keystroke wont help too much, as they're assigned to buttons.

[Jaggy]

I was actually thinking more along the lines of what we have in SSPlus (example pic attached...activated by pressing "Home Home") that gives the keys & the remote buttons (basically the "Keyboard Reference" off the wiki)

[ACTCMS]

SSPlus help displays keystrokes and remote butttons...

[imilne]

Nice as that looks, surely the danger is that it's hard coded to a particular remote and may not be suitable for all cases?

Iain

[ACTCMS]

Nice as that looks, surely the danger is that it's hard coded to a particular remote and may not be suitable for all cases?

Iain

Certainly it's designed around the 45 button Hauppauge, but if there were enough users of a significantly different remote it wouldn't be too hard to provide an alternative help screen.

Remember, the plugin is just responding to commonly used keystrokes. It's not important what button a given user has mapped to ^Q (for example) just so long as they know to press that button when they want to 'Pause'

Alex

[Jaggy]

Nice as that looks, surely the danger is that it's hard coded to a particular remote and may not be suitable for all cases? Iain

That was why I mentioned the "Keyboard Reference" off the wiki so as it would be kept consistent.

I feel it would be of help especially to new users who often seem to "not find" the Keyboard Reference on the wiki