Who wants to test my app?

[jeepsterryan]

We just finished up a new app for Boxee, but we need some people to try and break it It is a fitness app and we guarantee a slimmer sexier waistline just during the testing period or your money back.

Sign up here and we'll send you details on how to access the app by Monday.

[jeepsterryan]

By the way - testing is free and will run until November 1st.

[agentlame]

I would love to see what the final app looks like.

I signed-up.

[jeepsterryan]

I can't wait for your input. I'll send out details for the Repo by monday. We're hoping to get some public testing out of the way pretty quick and submit it to Boxee asap.

[jeepsterryan]

We want to submit our app to The Boxee repo asap. But, we'd like to make sure all (most) of the bugs are worked out. Even if you don't like to exercise we'd still love your input on the app.

Repository Instructions

Thanks in advance for any input.

[Fuzzgtp]

Seems to work very well.
The only annoyance I had while using it was if you select a category, the list loads at the bottom. If you arrow back up to the categories, then back down again, it reloads it.

Feels like it should only load when you select a category.

[jeepsterryan]

We are aware of that annoyance. We had a version with code that checked to see if a new category had been selected or not and it worked well except when navigation was done with the mouse. So, we took it out - for now. We'll add it later once we have perfected it.

Thanks for taking a look!

[Fuzzgtp]

it would probably work ok even if it only changed if a category was clicked.

[jeepsterryan]

We had two issues when we tried to do it. The first was handling the case of the first time the user clicked. If <ondown> just moves focus, it would move focus to an empty list because they hadn't selected a category yet.

The second problem arose when the user had changed categories. Obviously if they have moved to a new category panel and click, they expect a new list of classes for the new category. But, if they press down, it was ambiguous. Do you want a new list of classes or are you just trying to get back to where you were? So, to avoid confusion, it seemed better to just reload everytime.

I think what we'll do is write the code this way:

1. <onclick> and <ondown> If the currently focused category in the main panel matches the list of classes - just move focus without reloading.
2. If not, reload the class list to match the currently focused category in the main list.

That seems like the correct natural flow. What do you think?