Movie library scrolls to beginning

[Guest asrequested]

I think this has been reported, previously. When you scroll to a movie and go to its detail page then back out, you are sent back to the beginning of your collection. I only have about 600 movies, for those with thousands, this must be a nightmare. It would be nice if the position were remembered.

 

[ebr 16178]

On what platform?

[Guest asrequested]

ET for windows

[ebr 16178]

The full desktop app?

 

I cannot reproduce that with the desktop app or XB1 version.  Returns to whence I came...

[Guest asrequested]

Yeah, desktop app and I'm running Win 10. It's always been this way. It's not a new issue. This is in TV mode.

[ebr 16178]

Tried Auto, TV and Desktop modes.  Still couldn't reproduce.  Perhaps Luke will have an idea.

[Guest asrequested]

Would this show in the logs?

[Guest asrequested]

I think it has to do with the letter selection. I can't test right now, but I think it returns to the letter you last selected.

[Guest asrequested]

Yup! I was right. Whatever letter the selection is on, is where it scrolls back to. I hope it's clear enough in the GIF.

 

[ebr 16178]

Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce that either...

 

Luke...?

[Deathsquirrel 745]

It does this on the PC but not the xbox one, at least in my experience.

 

To reproduce:

1. Launch Emby Theater
2. Open All Movies
3. Click a letter in the navigation pane at the bottom.
4. Scroll forward from there to a letter further down the alphabet.  In my test I clicked L and then scrolled until I got into movies starting with P.
5. Click a movie to see its details.
6. Click back or use the back button on the mouse.

At that point your library will jump back to the letter you chose in step 3.  It's freaking annoying.

[Guest asrequested]

@@Luke I am your f.... *cough* ..... that was weird..... what do you think, big fella?

[Guest asrequested]

Still happening 

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

The full desktop app?

 

I cannot reproduce that with the desktop app or XB1 version.  Returns to whence I came...

You're lucky then. What is described in the first post has been the behavior since it was released. One of the things that makes the app borderline unusable.

[LASooner 24]

Does it only happen when you use a mouse? I can only reproduce it when using a mouse. If I select with remote or keyboard, it works as expected, but with a mouse it goes back to whatever letter you have indexed. This would probably be why it doesn't happen in the Xbox app 

 

Correction, it goes back to whatever was last focus framed.

Edited September 26, 2016 by LASooner

[Guest asrequested]

Only with the mouse. If I scroll with the keyboard, the letter scrolls according to where I am in the library. Scrolling with the mouse, the chosen letter remains static.

[Koleckai Silvestri 1154]

Only use a mouse myself. Don't own a remote for my PC. Never tried the keyboard and wouldn't know what keys do what in the navigation. Besides using a keyboard seems painful.

[Guest asrequested]

You can use the arrow keys

[PenkethBoy 2068]

Does the same thing on TV Series/albums etc - its not resetting the focus on the "letters" when you click(select) on the movie/tv series to look at the detail

 

it does loose focus (on the letter) if you click on the top menu e.g. "upcoming" - and when you return to "series" the letter focus is back to A - not sure that's right either

[ozchef 3]

This happens with me also. If I scroll to a later h (for example) then move a long to a movie starating with s. Go in to said movie decide to back out via either remote or mouse takes back to h (in this example)

[Luke 42078]

I can no longer reproduce this.

[Guest asrequested]

I can no longer reproduce this.

 

I can confirm that. Great job, Luke!

[AdrianW 1058]

I think this is related: 

 

I have multiple TV libraries (e.g. TV, Cartoons, etc) - If I drill down into a second or subsequent TV library (e.g. Cartoons > All Series > Series  > Season > Episode Detail) and then back out to the main screen, I will always end up at the first library. If I only go so far as a Season, backing out will leave me at the correct library on the main screen.

[Guest asrequested]

I think this is related: 

 

I have multiple TV libraries (e.g. TV, Cartoons, etc) - If I drill down into a second or subsequent TV library (e.g. Cartoons > All Series > Series  > Season > Episode Detail) and then back out to the main screen, I will always end up at the first library. If I only go so far as a Season, backing out will leave me at the correct library on the main screen.

 

So like this? But you'd prefer to end up at the library you started at?

 

[Luke 42078]

That is simply because the app keeps the state in memory for a limited number of screens, and once you go far down enough it will be recycled.