Alphabet Slider in Music App - HD2 Windows Mobile 6.5 Themes and Apps

Hi,
i am a bit displeased with the HTC Music App for a single reason.
I do have a lot of interprets in my library. If i want to select an interpret at the end of the displayed list, i have to start a sliding orgy to get to the end of the list.
I wonder if there is a chance to get an 'Alphabet Silder' to the right like in the Contacts list of the Phone?
Greetings
Volker

magicroomy said:
Hi,
i am a bit displeased with the HTC Music App for a single reason.
I do have a lot of interprets in my library. If i want to select an interpret at the end of the displayed list, i have to start a sliding orgy to get to the end of the list.
I wonder if there is a chance to get an 'Alphabet Silder' to the right like in the Contacts list of the Phone?
Greetings
Volker
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Keep wondering It is a miracle HTC hasn't implemented this kind of functionality in the music library, while they had a similar module for the contact list.
And i think that it can not be easily hacked in afterwards. Anyway, you can kick up your orgy experience (lol) a notch with a little tweak from the "leo hints and tips" thread:
51. speed Up Scrolling of Internet and People Tab, Album Page and All People PageS
You can speed up the speed of scrolling when you flick your finger by modifying the following registry tweak.
HKLM/SOFTWARE/HTC/HTCScroll/velocity_factor
Change to 20000 or higher. Experiment to what suits you.
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Scroll Albums in Today screen

Hi All,
I have had my HTC Touch pro a few days and the following post is well because it bugs me.
Is it possible to scroll through your albums (not songs or playlist) in the media bit of the luvly today media scrolly type menu.
I can go to library and choose an album - then a track and scroll through up/down those and it all looks nice etc.
I can load all my songs into playlist whic is approx 1000 or so right now but they are in individual song, alhabetical order (rather clumsy) to scroll.
When in the library I choose albums or artist tab then try to go back to the today scrolly luvly screen it goes back to the album song that was chosen before.
I guess I have visions of something like Itunes albums thingy or the contacts bit on the Diamond/diamond pro.
So either way is it do-able as in I am doing something wrong or it it just not an option with this ROM.
Thanks in advance
GW
I have the same "problem" From all the tinkering I have done trying to accomplish exactly what you are trying to accomlish. I assume it is "as designed" or a bug. Either way, my hope is that someone figures out how to tweak it to work.
I am not in love with Apple but one thing they got right was the ipod music organization (in my humble opinion)
not possible.
no registry keys either to be found
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Hi
Thanks for the replies. Shame about the album scroll but at least it wasnt me being a muppet for a change.
Would have been real nice to press the back button to go from album tracks back to album list.
Hey Ho, I am sure some Uber clever person will come up with something in the future.
Otherwise I think the T-Pro is significantly better than the TytnII it has replaced. There are litlle nicieties I keep finding for example you can zoom in when using the camera on its highest setting and when doing a video clip!
Thanks
Glen
wellsy said:
Hi
Thanks for the replies. Shame about the album scroll but at least it wasnt me being a muppet for a change.
Would have been real nice to press the back button to go from album tracks back to album list.
Hey Ho, I am sure some Uber clever person will come up with something in the future.
Otherwise I think the T-Pro is significantly better than the TytnII it has replaced. There are litlle nicieties I keep finding for example you can zoom in when using the camera on its highest setting and when doing a video clip!
Thanks
Glen
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I feel the same as you. I am still finding the improvements and have the faith someone will overhaul all th emusic stuff here anyway. We have just scratched the surface
Hi
Did a bit of scrutiny to the full PDF manual that it comes shipped with. On page 79 it clearly says that in the today screen - music tab you can scroll albums as well as songs in ablums?
I have sent an enquiry ticket to HTC to see if it is a print error or not.
Regards
wellsy said:
Hi
Did a bit of scrutiny to the full PDF manual that it comes shipped with. On page 79 it clearly says that in the today screen - music tab you can scroll albums as well as songs in ablums?
I have sent an enquiry ticket to HTC to see if it is a print error or not.
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And did you ever get a response from HTC >>

[IDEA] Alphabetical music tab scroller

Hi guys,
It'd be great if someone knew how to make an alphabet scroller for the music tab similar to the one in manila contacts. Only reason for this is becoz wen you have over 1000 songs its rather annoying scrolling to the bottom.
I asked that myself too, why isn't there a scroller???
+1
take for example the hero. wen you begin to scroll a bar comes up out of the side which you can drag and it extends further with an alphabetical sorter...it shouldn't b that hard to make...i would do it except i wouldn't have a clue how
jono0402 said:
Hi guys,
It'd be great if someone knew how to make an alphabet scroller for the music tab similar to the one in manila contacts. Only reason for this is becoz wen you have over 1000 songs its rather annoying scrolling to the bottom.
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that would need a whole new app I'm afraid...
would it be like making a new tab for manila similar to the ebook one or the documents one or more difficult than that?
jono0402 said:
Hi guys,
It'd be great if someone knew how to make an alphabet scroller for the music tab similar to the one in manila contacts. Only reason for this is becoz wen you have over 1000 songs its rather annoying scrolling to the bottom.
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+1
HTC stupidos sometimes develop while brain-afk
imo its not a shame to copy excellent parts of the iphone
jono0402 said:
would it be like making a new tab for manila similar to the ebook one or the documents one or more difficult than that?
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I was not referring to necessarily making a new tab, just that it's a whole new feature, and adding it to the current manila music player is not quite an option.
As far as I know, no music players for WM have that alphabetical scroller, and I have tried I few before settling with mortplayer for my car
ephestione said:
I was not referring to necessarily making a new tab, just that it's a whole new feature, and adding it to the current manila music player is not quite an option.
As far as I know, no music players for WM have that alphabetical scroller, and I have tried I few before settling with mortplayer for my car
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there is one with an alphabetical tab its called pocket player..its really good except that the sense interface will b missed...cmon developers if u can make really complicated interfaces im sure this will b a breeze
anyone work on this please
can someone please develop it???
+1. Completely agree.
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it would make things easier..
I agree too.
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Would love this one missing feature with Sense music player.
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.... please ! !
S2P has this feature
The freeware program S2P has this feature. I use S2P instead of Sense Music player.
Cheers
Ultan
Ye but i really like the one incorporated into sense and i think its pretty stupid to not have a scroller it take forever to get to your song

[REQ]Car friendly UI

I am thinking of installing an Android tablet into my car as a carpc. Android is not very vehicle (minimal attention) friendly so an app maybe a home screen type application could solve this.
I have an idea of what it could look like nothing to complex. I attached a mock up. The buttons on the right can be bigger or more of them and can be customizable (auto call text playlist) the volume on the right could be a stage up down (more clicks the louder long press for mute) or slider whichever. Perhaps digital OBD II gauges could be added as well if screen size is big enough.
Haptic feed back and definitive clicks sounds should be optional so you know you have hit a key.
The wall paper behind everything should be customizable maybe visualizer or album art users choice.
I think simple gesture could be implemented as well slide for new song up or down for voice activities (voice search or vlingo) I'd have no idea what to do on the programing side, but I could learn and help.
Any ideas or volunteers leave a comment if this is done I'll delete but I could not see such an app not that I knew what to search for. this could be quite popular in the CarPC forums if it has not been done before. Market wise ad supported with a one time payment pro version (2-5$) would probably have best sales. (I just want the app take the idea nothing expected here, except maybe I get it free ;-). I'll help test)
bump it up
Android Car Dock available in 2.2+
Its a stock app
Not quite what I'm looking for all that is is short cuts to non mobile friendly apps. It also doesn't look as seamless as a single solution would.
Try Desktop Visulizer, it can create as big icons as you want, selecting custom images.
A new home screen and widgets seem to be the best choice at this point. "Where I'm at" widget is great for the maps part and a volume up down widget works great for volume. I haven't found a reliable media mute widget tho. Just about any music player has a mobile friendly widget.
A voice command app that pauses music correctly would really help though lol.
I'm interested send me a pm with more info and ill look into it
Sent from my HTC Hero CDMA using Tapatalk
it is possible to have a map view in the middle of the application but not a navigation view as it is not documented by the api and simple odb2 data is easy its just serial data but not being able to ingrate navigation posses a problem
I was talking to the developer of "Where I'm At" and he said he would look into it. Could an alternative GPS app be used or even a 2x1 widget with next turn direction. Sounds like the best bet would be a new app with everything built in already. That would take away from customization of different music apps unless an option was coded in.
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I was talking to the developer of "Where I'm At" and he said he would look into it. Could an alternative GPS app be used or even a 2x1 widget with next turn direction. Sounds like the best bet would be a new app with everything built in already. That would take away from customization of different music apps unless an option was coded in.
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Only if it was open source because most navigation apps are paid and it is against the terms of service to use
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[APP][2.2+/3.0+][open source] Pixelesque - Pixel Art Creator

So I found out there's no pixel art creator/editor/drawer for android. Naturally I had to write one. 72 hours later: Pixelesque.
Backend is done with Processing, and all the android buttons were made with the app itself.
100% free
Market: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rj.pixelesque
Source: https://github.com/rjmarsan/Pixelesque
You can edit, export, share, etc.
I'm super interested in feedback; ease of use, feature suggestions, etc.
Hey, thanks for working on this. It is a very good start and a good idea since it can be a quick few minute diversion while waiting in line, on the bus, etc.
Additions that would be cool to see-
ability to choose the size of the canvas and be able to add or remove rows/columns.
see a preview of the picture quickly while creating it
have an optional coordinate system (a la excel) to keep track of space, symmetry, etc
(far off thought) social aspect! Have browsable creations from other artists, ratings, tagging and sorting, etc
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Hey, thanks for working on this. It is a very good start and a good idea since it can be a quick few minute diversion while waiting in line, on the bus, etc.
Additions that would be cool to see-
ability to choose the size of the canvas and be able to add or remove rows/columns.
see a preview of the picture quickly while creating it
have an optional coordinate system (a la excel) to keep track of space, symmetry, etc
(far off thought) social aspect! Have browsable creations from other artists, ratings, tagging and sorting, etc
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Good suggestions. The preview and coordinate system seem totally doable. As for the first one, do you mean resize things, or making new ones? I thought the 'new' dialog did a good job of choosing custom sizes.
The social part is certainly something I had thought a lot about, but don't have the time or skill to write the server/browser side (anyone want to help?)
awesome!! i am huge into low-res pixel art (weird, i know) so i am very excited about this. just got a warranty replacement on my phone so i have to upgrade to 2.2 again before i can install but i'm definitely going to try it out.
as for quickly resizing to look at the overall picture: in a pixel program i use (GraphicsGale) as well as photoshop and whatnot, you can set a little "preview" window of your image to see how it looks zoomed out. it really helps being able to glance over and see the image to make sure it's all coming together and the composition is right, and as it might be bulky doing something like that on a phone it would be equally useful to have a quick "zoom out/zoom in" button to look at the overall image. i'm guessing that's what the other guy was saying - but like i said, i haven't gotten to install it yet so i have no idea if this kind of thing exists yet!
lauu said:
awesome!! i am huge into low-res pixel art (weird, i know) so i am very excited about this. just got a warranty replacement on my phone so i have to upgrade to 2.2 again before i can install but i'm definitely going to try it out.
as for quickly resizing to look at the overall picture: in a pixel program i use (GraphicsGale) as well as photoshop and whatnot, you can set a little "preview" window of your image to see how it looks zoomed out. it really helps being able to glance over and see the image to make sure it's all coming together and the composition is right, and as it might be bulky doing something like that on a phone it would be equally useful to have a quick "zoom out/zoom in" button to look at the overall image. i'm guessing that's what the other guy was saying - but like i said, i haven't gotten to install it yet so i have no idea if this kind of thing exists yet!
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The preview is an excellent idea.
I'm slowly starting to realize I have more ideas than space on the screen. Is there anything that's less necessary, or confusing about the UI? I'm debating having a quick popup on startup explaining how to use it, but i sort of hate those apps.
Someone mentioned to me having the bottom bar of tools swipe side to side like launcher pro. Don't know if that's 'intuitive' or most people wont notice it.
rjmarsan said:
The preview is an excellent idea.
I'm slowly starting to realize I have more ideas than space on the screen. Is there anything that's less necessary, or confusing about the UI? I'm debating having a quick popup on startup explaining how to use it, but i sort of hate those apps.
Someone mentioned to me having the bottom bar of tools swipe side to side like launcher pro. Don't know if that's 'intuitive' or most people wont notice it.
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I finally got around to updating my phone to get pixelesque, and I love it. The UI to me is simple and straight-forward; if you're looking to downsize, the pencil/hand tools could probably be combined. It helps having the single-pixel option but I don't think it's totally necessary. I'm impartial to the whole "side-swipe" thing; if you add more options/icons yeah it could come in handy but for now I personally like it as is. One thing that could attract a lot more pixel art enthusiasts could be the option to begin with a canvas of large pixels (like it has now) or smaller (maybe half-size?) pixels, for better detail. Again I don't know **** about app development so I have no idea how difficult changes like this are
But so far I love it! I'll update here with some pixel art if I ever get the time
lauu said:
One thing that could attract a lot more pixel art enthusiasts could be the option to begin with a canvas of large pixels (like it has now) or smaller (maybe half-size?) pixels, for better detail.
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You and silentheero have mentioned the same point. Is this an extension to the "New" dialog, or something I'm missing?
Also, I'm almost done with making a 'fill' brush and some geometry brushes 'circle, rectangle, line'. I think I'll try to implement a live preview as well as a color picker for the next release (probably in a week or so), along with any more features you guys can think of.
Thanks so much for the ideas guys.
New update, added a preview on the bottom, brushes (fill, rect, circle, and line), and upped the single image size to 64x64. Performance also has increased quite a bit.
No color picker JUST yet, still working out exactly how I'd like to implement it. Ideas? Thoughts in general?
rjmarsan said:
Someone mentioned to me having the bottom bar of tools swipe side to side like launcher pro. Don't know if that's 'intuitive' or most people wont notice it.
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I tried if I could swipe the tools
rjmarsan said:
No color picker JUST yet, still working out exactly how I'd like to implement it. Ideas? Thoughts in general?
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How about holding the finger down on a pixel picks its color?
FEATURES I WOULD LIKE:
1) A textured background, so it is possible to distingush between a black pixel and a transparent one.
2) The ability to swich to fullscreen mode in the settings.
3) I can't save the file. I simply cannot figure out how to get a .png file out of the program. Export seems just wierd, I don't want to save at some other resolution than the one I draw in.
4) How about a simple in-game help text? I uninstalled Pixelesque once because I didn't discover most of the features (multiple canvas sizes, drag, zoom, auto-saved colors)
5) It would be nice if it was possible to import a high-res bitmap in the background, which I could trace as pixel-art. Then I could sketch naturally, either using a physical pencil, or another drawing app.
... Besides that, the app is perfect! Good work.
kasper hviid said:
How about holding the finger down on a pixel picks its color?
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I like that a lot. I'll just have to make sure to put a short help guide when the app starts.
kasper hviid said:
1) A textured background, so it is possible to distingush between a black pixel and a transparent one.
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Yup. Haven't done this one yet out of laziness, but I should.
kasper hviid said:
2) The ability to swich to fullscreen mode in the settings.
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How exactly does this work? Would the bottom and top bars just go away, and you hit menu again for them to come back?
kasper hviid said:
3) I can't save the file. I simply cannot figure out how to get a .png file out of the program. Export seems just wierd, I don't want to save at some other resolution than the one I draw in.
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Yeah... for now you can dig out the actual .png from the program folder (that's all it uses to save the images itself), but I should add an 'original size' to the export menu, if that works?
kasper hviid said:
4) How about a simple in-game help text? I uninstalled Pixelesque once because I didn't discover most of the features (multiple canvas sizes, drag, zoom, auto-saved colors)
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Definitely. coming soon.
kasper hviid said:
5) It would be nice if it was possible to import a high-res bitmap in the background, which I could trace as pixel-art. Then I could sketch naturally, either using a physical pencil, or another drawing app.
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I was actually thinking of making this a 'paid' feature, as it's a pretty intense. Not sure if this app is at a point yet where anyone would buy a paid version.
kasper hviid said:
... Besides that, the app is perfect! Good work.
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Thanks a lot man. Thanks for the feedback too. I pretty much make this app based off what people here ask for. The only other feature I've been thinking that you didn't mention, is a way to shift and resize drawings.
rjmarsan said:
Yeah... for now you can dig out the actual .png from the program folder (that's all it uses to save the images itself), but I should add an 'original size' to the export menu, if that works?
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That would be nice!
rjmarsan said:
How exactly does this work? Would the bottom and top bars just go away, and you hit menu again for them to come back?
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I would think of something like "stays fullscreen untill it's turned off again in the settings." I really like discrete minimalistic interfaces, so my ideal Pixelesque would probably be something like this:
img805.imageshack.us/img805/3075/pixelesque.jpg
I have removed everything, sized down the icons and removed the icons background, and added a bit of drop shadow.
After Chrome came out, Firefox copypasted its minimalistic GUI. So having less GUI must have some value. But I'm more fanatical about it than most.
rjmarsan said:
I was actually thinking of making this a 'paid' feature, as it's a pretty intense. Not sure if this app is at a point yet where anyone would buy a paid version.
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Making it a paid feature sounds reasonable, since it is more geared towards more ambitious users.
Another method would be to have a high-res sketching layer with a few basic sketching tools: Sketching pencil, larger pencil at the size of a "final pixel" and eraser. Colors won't be needed. That way, the sketch could be drawn to fit a certain pixel size, and the artist won't waste time with too small details.
A FEW SMALL IDEAS:
Ability to turn the grid off
Two-finger shortcuts like Menu+screentouch or Pencil+screentouch. Could be used to turn preview on/off or eyedropper.
Toggle small/large/both by clicking the preview
For some reason, the semi-opaque square at my finger "feels" sluggish, since it jumps to the current pixel.
Will definitely be trying this. Used to "draw" on my old ti-82 all the time.
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People invent fantastic and simply things sometimes...
maybe a dialog to save when exiting should be added ?
or some mechanism that saves the last made image automaticly when exiting ?
I love pixel art but never got into it but as a person who never done it... I think the ability to import a picture in the background and create pixel art over it is an awesome idea.
It shouldn't be only in the pro version since I think this single feature will let everyone try it out and create pixel art.
Perhaps free version is limited to 16 colors vs 256 of pro + more tools.
Just the ability to import a picture in the background and use 16 colors to recreate it (don't need tools really just a pencil tool) = free.
Pro should have more tools, ability to resize grid, upload options (Facebook?), and more.
G2x - 2.3.7 CM7
Transformer - 3.2 Revolver OC/UV
maepchik said:
People invent fantastic and simply things sometimes...
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Thank you very much. I really appreciate the comments people leave.
1immortal said:
maybe a dialog to save when exiting should be added ?
or some mechanism that saves the last made image automaticly when exiting ?
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I spent all lunch discussing your comment. I think what I'm going to do, is it will automatically save right before the app quits. That way you can open an existing image, edit it for a while, save it as something else, but don't lose your original. However if you edit it and quit, you don't lose your work. Is that a fair tradeoff?
player911 said:
I love pixel art but never got into it but as a person who never done it... I think the ability to import a picture in the background and create pixel art over it is an awesome idea.
It shouldn't be only in the pro version since I think this single feature will let everyone try it out and create pixel art.
Perhaps free version is limited to 16 colors vs 256 of pro + more tools.
Just the ability to import a picture in the background and use 16 colors to recreate it (don't need tools really just a pencil tool) = free.
Pro should have more tools, ability to resize grid, upload options (Facebook?), and more.
G2x - 2.3.7 CM7
Transformer - 3.2 Revolver OC/UV
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I have a really tough time with making a paid app. I've never done it before, as it feels really mean. On the one hand, I want the paid app to be for hardcore users who want the 'power tools' that are tough to implement and only benefit them. On the other hand, I don't want to purposefully lobotomize the free version to force people to upgrade... The image as a background is a handy feature, albeit a bit of an intense feature. I think I can work it in the free version, or alternately just may give away the pro version to you awesome xda guys.
rjmarsan said:
I spent all lunch discussing your comment. I think what I'm going to do, is it will automatically save right before the app quits. That way you can open an existing image, edit it for a while, save it as something else, but don't lose your original. However if you edit it and quit, you don't lose your work. Is that a fair tradeoff?
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fair enough
you're doing a great job, thanks for all your time and work !
rjmarsan said:
Yeah... for now you can dig out the actual .png from the program folder (that's all it uses to save the images itself), but I should add an 'original size' to the export menu, if that works?
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Where is the Program folder? I can't find it on my SD Card.
This App is FANTASTIC. It's perfect for making my Rockbox Artwork. My suggestions so far are:
1) An easy way to export my created art in one go, rather than one at a time. The current way isn't that good for me. I see no point in having the option to export in the current Low, Medium and High resolutions. Like, what's the point? I'd just like to see it export the image(s) I've created in their existing size and be able to chose from one/many or all to export at once. ie transfer them to my PC.
2) The ability to Play the created files as an Animation or Flip Art. ie Let me choose a list of files I've created (all the same grid size) and the order I wish to see them shown and the speed. Similar to this:
https://market.android.com/details?...51bGwsMSwxLDEwNCwiYWlyLkJyaWRnZUludmFkZXJzIl0.
Check out the Vimeo link there.
3) The option to save them as bitmaps,preferably with colour options ie 2 colour Black and White.
4) I'd like to see the "Save As" option in the same Menu as the "Save". If I'm creating multiple files in succession, it would be nice to only have to tap the menu once and not click "More".
5) The option to choose Preview Size. I'd like a larger preveiw that what's there now.
Thanks for the great free app. It's a lot of fun.
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I spent all lunch discussing your comment. I think what I'm going to do, is it will automatically save right before the app quits. That way you can open an existing image, edit it for a while, save it as something else, but don't lose your original. However if you edit it and quit, you don't lose your work. Is that a fair tradeoff?
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I'd like this option.

Pressing up causes turbo scrolling to the top, it's awful. Can you disable it?

The newer versions of MX Player introduced a quick scroll when looking through video lists in a folder. I have a folder of 600 videos, so if I scroll down a long way, miss something by one line and click 'up' on the remote, it immediately scrolls super fast all the way back to the top and I can't stop it. It's a nightmare. Is this intentional new behavior? Can you disable it? I can't believe they added this, clicking left on the remote used to do this and it was useful, but hitting 'up' now it's rendered the app completely unusable. I want the ability to scroll up line by line back!
Please tell me this can be disabled somehow, or that the devs are listening to this.
fbueller said:
The newer versions of MX Player introduced a quick scroll when looking through video lists in a folder. I have a folder of 600 videos, so if I scroll down a long way, miss something by one line and click 'up' on the remote, it immediately scrolls super fast all the way back to the top and I can't stop it. It's a nightmare. Is this intentional new behavior? Can you disable it? I can't believe they added this, clicking left on the remote used to do this and it was useful, but hitting 'up' now it's rendered the app completely unusable. I want the ability to scroll up line by line back!
Please tell me this can be disabled somehow, or that the devs are listening to this.
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We are sorry to bring you this inconvenience. We have already highlighted your feedback with our relevant team. We are investigating this on priority and will do the best to get it sorted at the earliest. Meanwhile, your patience is highly appreciated.

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