[Empeg-general] Re: Yet another fantastically difficult project...

[hybrid8@empegbbs-noreply.merlins.org]

How about this suggestion for a popup input for searching...  The following would appear in a box:

ABCDEFGHI
JKLMNOPRS
TUVWXYQZ

A highlight would appear over the letters corresponding to the number buttons on the remote.  This is similar to a high-score list, but the highlight won't move by one one character at a time.  So you get ABC then DEF then GHI, etc...  With so regions to highlight, you can use two keys to scroll the highlight, one to cancel and one to select.  Of course it would be nicer to be able to scroll 4 ways...  Anyway, if this would pop up near the right side of the screen you could still see some of the items you're searching for.  And it would be nice if it were persistent, until you exited it manually or a timeout.  So this way you wouldn't have to re-enter the popup to keep selecting letters.

Anyone want to see if that's something Mark can put into Hijack?

Bruno