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SmoothDime
May 4th, 2010, 08:43 PM
I am doing a video player and when the video comes to an end I display my replay button in the center over the video. Besides the 3/4 circle arrow, what's the correct symbol?
A triangle arrow pointing to the left..is the vertical bar on the right or the left of the arrow?
Or is it the double arrow one?
_kp
May 5th, 2010, 04:37 PM
Many symbols are used for different actions in some programs, just should get take a look at some common video/audio players. There probably is no 'correct' symbol.
There are already way to many arrows in my opinion. I think the most common are:
>| or >>| next track
|< or |<< previous
|> and <| step forward/backward
>> and << adjust speed / fast forward/rewind
It depends on where the button is placed. I think it doesn't matter that much in your case, where the button is only shown at end. In an user interface, I guess the circle arrow is the most intuitive one, although winamp and windows media player are using that one to toggle repeat. Maybe a browser-like refresh symbol (double arrow circle) is better?
If there is no playlist I guess |< could also be used to indicate replay.
sofygrafe
May 8th, 2010, 01:38 PM
If there is no playlist I guess |< could also be used to indicate replay.
yeah, |< visualy mean go back to the beggining so logicaly it works, double arrow would mean to go back to a previous video.
Ill go with this |<, beside the turning arrow.:rabbit:
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