Mailing List Archive: Adding a value to a page using the themes

Adding a value to a page using the themes

Feb 17, 2010, 10:08 AM

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Ok so I had this idea to add the next scheduled recording for a
program to the Watch Recordings screen - when you're highlghting the
group name and not a specific episode. There seems in that instance to
be this unused screen real estate and I thought it would a decent
feature to look into adding.

So I read the theming documentation and the following theme pages:

/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/recordings-ui.xml
/usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/schedule-ui.xml

But it seems that if I want MythUi to fill in a textarea based on a
value for a program I would need to add that value to the ProgramInfo::ToMap
method so that it's an available value. Is that true?

-JohnnyJboss
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Re: Adding a value to a page using the themes [ In reply to ]

mythtv at sky

Feb 18, 2010, 10:49 AM

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Johnny Walker wrote:
> Ok so I had this idea to add the next scheduled recording for a
> program to the Watch Recordings screen - when you're highlghting the
> group name and not a specific episode. There seems in that instance to
> be this unused screen real estate and I thought it would a decent
> feature to look into adding.
>
> So I read the theming documentation and the following theme pages:
>
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/recordings-ui.xml
> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/schedule-ui.xml
>
> But it seems that if I want MythUi to fill in a textarea based on a
> value for a program I would need to add that value to the ProgramInfo::ToMap
> method so that it's an available value. Is that true?
>
> -JohnnyJboss
>

You can't do what you wont simply by editing a theme you would have to
write some code to first find the details of the next recording and then
update the text areas as appropriate. You don't _have_ to use a map to
update the text areas you can also use SetText() but the easiest way if
you have a ProgramInfo with the correct details is to use the ToMap method.

Paul H.
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Re: Adding a value to a page using the themes [ In reply to ]

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Feb 18, 2010, 11:59 AM

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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Paul Harrison <mythtv@sky.com> wrote:
> Johnny Walker wrote:
>> Ok so I had this idea to add the next scheduled recording for a
>> program to the Watch Recordings screen - when you're highlghting the
>> group name and not a specific episode. There seems in that instance to
>> be this unused screen real estate and I thought it would a decent
>> feature to look into adding.
>>
>> So I read the theming documentation and the following theme pages:
>>
>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/recordings-ui.xml
>> /usr/local/share/mythtv/themes/Mythbuntu/schedule-ui.xml
>>
>> But it seems that if I want MythUi to fill in a textarea based on a
>> value for a program I would need to add that value to the ProgramInfo::ToMap
>> method so that it's an available value. Is that true?
>>
>> -JohnnyJboss
>>
>
> You can't do what you wont simply by editing a theme you would have to
> write some code to first find the details of the next recording and then
> update the text areas as appropriate. You don't _have_ to use a map to
> update the text areas you can also use SetText() but the easiest way if
> you have a ProgramInfo with the correct details is to use the ToMap method.
>
> Paul H.

This is what I suspected. So I'm thinking I could use ProgLister
created with a plTitleSearch for the active (highlighted) category and
that would give me the list of ProgramInfo matching, and then I can
iterate that list looking for one set to record and use that to set
the value in the theme, once I add that textArea to the specific
window of the theme.

I'm off again tomorrow and hoping to get this working.

Thanks for the input.

-Johnny
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