[vlc] Re: VLC: click on cursor means THAT point, not any {in|dec}crement

[Benjamin PRACHT]

On Sat, Mar 05, 2005, Andrea Balex wrote :
> 
> Hi,
> 	I use VLC Media Player version 0.8.1 for Windows,
> on Windows XP platform.
> Like all previous versions, seek operations are not friendly...  :-)
> 
> I mean:
> when playing a movie or video, on the bottom there is the
> navigation bar with the cursor, moving from left to right.
> That's ok.
> But if I click on a point on the navigation bar, I'd like
> to go there, to THAT point (that is, to THAT time).
> Instead, VLC simply moves cursor towards that point, moving
> it in a fixed step.  It does not reach the clicked point
> exactly, simply moves cursor towards it.  Cursors movements,
> in such way, are always made of fixed steps (cursor moves
> for a fixed amount of playing time).
> If I want to reach a certain point exactly, I have to
> drag the cursor and drop on that point.
> In such way it works.
> 
> I think, and feel, that a "Windows Media Player" behaviour (!!!)
> would be better: Windows Media Player, in fact, let me click
> on a point, and it moves navigation cursor on that point,
> precisely, regardless of where the cursor was before my click.
> 
> This is a much more friendly behaviour.
> 
> For future releases, I'd suggest you to implement such
> behaviour.
> Would it be possible?
> 

This behaviour is a very annoying wxWidgets (the toolkit we use for
windows and linux interfaces) feature. There is not known way to change
this behaviour, execept moving to another toolkit (and trashing long
hour of hard work on this interface). If any wxWidget guru passing by
has an idea...

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BigBen

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