Bug 6597 - player name text entry issues
: player name text entry issues
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Product: SB Controller
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Setup
: unspecified
: PC Other
: P3 minor (vote)
: 7.0.1
Assigned To: Michael Herger
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Reported: 2008-01-13 08:37 UTC by Doug Williams
Modified: 2008-05-15 12:27 UTC (History)
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Description Doug Williams 2008-01-13 08:37:01 UTC
r1404 (from 12 Jan SC 7 nightly)

If you pick the Settings/Advanced/Player Name option you cannot cancel your choice.  You have to enter a name or the player will be renamed to zero(0).

This is particularly bad because the Player Name text entry functionality has many quirks in it as well.  Please let me know if these need to be reported separately.

1) Can't scroll from the end of the characters to the front - it cycles on the last 2 special characters.
2) No Space character
3) Hitting the Insert key at the end of the text (to add a space) seems to turn off the letter scrolling.

Question - WHY would you want to enter the player name from the controller anyway?  Unless you are thinking of a completely computer-less installation player naming would almost certainly be done inside of the SC web interface, etc.  Just remove the option for the sake of simplicity???
Comment 1 Doug Williams 2008-01-13 08:50:41 UTC
Dang, I missed 6384 the first time when entering this.  I didn't see the other text keying stuff anywhere, though, so I didn't mark it as a duplicate.
Comment 2 Blackketter Dean 2008-01-18 09:27:43 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 6384 ***
Comment 3 Doug Williams 2008-01-19 06:37:37 UTC
The other bug 6384 was only partially fixed (on the SC side) and didn't address any Jive issues.  It was stated that a different bug was going to be opened for the jive side of that problem.  It wouldn't have addressed any of the actual text entry issues noted here so I'm unflagging this one as a duplicate.  I suppose it could be flagged as a duplicate of the new one (or is this the new one?) to correct the jive side issues.
Comment 4 Ben Klaas 2008-01-19 10:37:51 UTC
on the quirks--

1) I'm unsure why this is occurring, but it does eventually "recover" if you scroll a couple extra turns.
2) fixed in SC change 16473
3) I don't see this behavior, but if it's still there we have a space key now, so that's at least a decent workaround

on the question--
yes, it's valid to change a player name from the controller, esp. for those connecting to SqueezeNetwork instead of SqueezeCenter. There are going to be those that don't want to go to a web browser for something like this.

leaving this bug as reopened, due to problem #1 above. setting target milestone to 7.0.1, priority to P3, severity to minor
Comment 5 Richard Titmuss 2008-03-12 07:05:08 UTC
Fixed in SC 7.0.1 change 17863.

Reassigning to Michael to check if the localization scripts caused this problem.
Comment 6 James Richardson 2008-05-06 13:55:36 UTC
Verified fixed in 7.0.1 - 19422
Comment 7 James Richardson 2008-05-15 12:27:00 UTC
This bug has recently been fixed in the latest release of SqueezeCenter 7.0.1

Please try that version, if you still see the error, then reopen this bug.

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