[mythtv-commits] Ticket #1894: Various cosmetic bug-fixes/improvements to program guides
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Mon May 29 20:17:46 UTC 2006
#1894: Various cosmetic bug-fixes/improvements to program guides
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Reporter: mythtv at dadeos.freeserve.co.uk | Owner: ijr
Type: patch | Status: new
Priority: minor | Milestone:
Component: mythtv | Version: head
Severity: medium |
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I have some channel icons that contain transparency information. The code
that displays the channel’s call sign underneath the channel icon was
causing me some problems because the text was visible through the
transparent icons. The attached “guideicons.patch” file tweaks this code
so that the text is only displayed if there is no channel icon configured
for a given channel. It also contains a minor optimisation so that if the
channel icon contained within the database cannot be located on the disk
the cached icon filename is reset so that the guide doesn’t keep trying to
load the same icon each time the channel is visited in the guide. I found
that this greatly improved the scrolling performance when icons are
missing for one reason or another.
Whilst I was looking into these problems, I noticed that the large
(current) channel icon had a black background behind it, yet the smaller
(per-channel) icons displayed in the main guide list did not. I discovered
this black background came from the theme background images. I personally
think that it looks better without this black background so I have
produced some modified background images with the black square removed.
“gg-backgrounds.tgz” (containing updates for both “default” and “default-
wide” versions)
I also noticed that the “gg-vid-background” images (used for the program
guide whilst watching TV, with the video in the top right-hand corner)
differed from the “gg-background” images (used for the main program guide,
without the video in the top corner), with respect to the current date
being placed in its own box. Again, personally I think it looks better
without the box, so I’ve made them both the same.
Along the way, I came across some minor problems with the “MythCenter” and
“MythCenter-wide” themes. I’m not sure that I can remember all of the
tweaks, but they include; video overlay not exactly lining up with
background “Loading Preview Video…” box, “Loading Preview Video…” being
over-drawn on the video feed whenever the cursor moved in the program
guide for the “MythCenter-wide” theme, channel icons being
stretched/distorted, the channel identification area being a different
size between the video overlay guide and the normal guide. These changes
were all tweaks to the MythCentre theme XML files and are contained in the
attached “MythCenter.patch” and “MythCentre-wide.patch” files.
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