Gesturing for Playlists

**CraziFuzzy** · 01-12-2008, 10:41 PM

I've noticed in the Gesturing system, there are entries for Music Albums and Music Genres, but no shortcut to get to the Music Playlists. This would be VERY good to have, since I have all my internet radio stations in playlists. It takes 3-4 taps/gestures to get to the playlists currently (home, Music, Page Dn, Playlists).
The old navigation was at least easier for this, as Playlists was available from the main music page.

**DarquePervert** · 01-13-2008, 08:28 AM

You can set gestures to go to whatever you want from the settings menu.

**meth68** · 01-13-2008, 10:39 AM

Good luck creating a working gesture, I dont know if its me or what but I spent over 30 minutes trying to make a "add to favorites" gesture in navigation and I couldn't get it to recognize any gesture I was trying to make, it got to a point that before I gave up I just made a gesture like this ">" just to keep it as simple as possible and i couldnt get SD to recognize it no matter how many times I attempted to create it.

**rxh81** · 01-28-2008, 09:23 AM

Originally Posted by DarquePervert

You can set gestures to go to whatever you want from the settings menu.

That's not right ! There is no possibility to define a gesture for playlists. There is it for every other module, but not for playlists. At least I couln't find it.

I also raised this issue months ago, but no reaction from SD.
This thing couldn't be so hard to do! And I really miss it!!

And I don't mind, if special new defined gestures won't work, because there are 26 characters that work perfectly, and this is enough for me.

Roland

**Kimota** · 01-31-2008, 11:40 AM

I second that I would LOVE to be able to gesture for playlist.

P.S

I also didn't see it under one of the options to assign a gesture to ;(

**god_of_cpu** · 01-31-2008, 03:47 PM

Playlists is not a function that is defined, you can easily add this functionality though a digitalmod though, just startup the development environment, create a new script project, add a new scripted overlay to it. Overload the OnFunction event for the Overlay, then in the event body, choose a function you rarly use like eFunctionToggleRelay1 and when eFunction equals that, call App.Exec "CMusicPlaylistModule" and return TRUE

Then in StreetDeck, bind a gesture to the eFunctionToggleRelay1 function or whatever one you choose and as long as the digitalmod is running, it will go to the playlist module.

i.e.

Code:

if eFunction = eFunctionToggleRelay1 Then
     App.Exec "CMusicPlaylistModule"
     Overlay_OnFunction = True
End If

This same code should work for going to any module you just have to get the module class name by using the -info command line switch.

**rxh81** · 02-03-2008, 03:03 PM

Hi God of CPU,

I don't understand, why you propose to do such a strange work around, if you could add this missing link probably in minutes and release it in the next update...

For me it looks like you have forgotten this setting anyway, because everything else is there.

Or is there an other reason, why you don't be able or don't want to add this thing?

**Fiberoptic** · 02-03-2008, 11:03 PM

Originally Posted by rxh81

Hi God of CPU,

I don't understand, why you propose to do such a strange work around, if you could add this missing link probably in minutes and release it in the next update...

For me it looks like you have forgotten this setting anyway, because everything else is there.

Or is there an other reason, why you don't be able or don't want to add this thing?

Its feature creep. If it did get added, it wouldnt be set to a gesture by default and most users would never know about it. Adding functions also breaks all supporting apps that use it and can break plugins.

Sure adding it would take minutes. Updating the supporting apps, merging the changes into all the different builds, testing it, and updating the documentation would take the better part of the day.