video question for MTU

[mindonstrike]

Last word I heard was that it would require an extensive overhaul on the code, so I wouldn't expect it too soon

I'm sure it's probably in the specs for the next time they have to make major programming changes.

Sam

[songpony]

Just wondering if this has been reviewed by ADMIN and if there's any response. Thanks.

[admin]

Originally Posted by songpony

I've seen a few comments about items that could be included in the next beta release. A problem that I haven't seen addressed yet is the fact that the keyboard is unusable (except for the letters and numbers) while a video is playing...

...traversing from field to field or "selecting" something must all be done with the mouse.

Songpony, thanks for asking it here as there are others who want to know also.

We have tried to solve this problem, but maybe I didn't post our results.

The VIDEO DISPLAY is a totally separate Microsoft Application (.exe) that we launch to play all video files. We do have the source code to it, so in theory we can modify it to do anything.

The problem is there is only one THREAD, and it DEMANDS foreground control. Thus, any key strokes are captured by the Foreground Application. This prevents them from passing to a background Application.

To fix this, we have to crawl into this Microsoft's code and that will take some time and is not currently scheduled to be done.

We did add a DELETE button on the Hoster screen in 3.310 that allows removing any Track from the Song List, even while playing a Video. Thus, we did get everyone a quick fix.