[mythtv] Re: [PATCH] MythMusic metadata editor music-ui.xml cleanup

[Paul]

Colin Wrote:

>Hi Paul,

>Paul wrote:
>> This patch just cleans up the music-ui theme files that
>> have got a little screwed up over the last few days, for
>> example the blue theme has two copies of the edit_metadata
>> window definition and gant is missing a few UI elements.
>>
>> Also cleaned the layout up a little so the Compilation Artist label
>> isn't cut off.

>Thanks for that Paul, I'm sure Isaac will commit it when he gets a sec.

>Proably my fault for the cutting off the label in the first place!

>Just out of curiosity, this is the first time I had to tweak the
>music-ui.xml file. Is there a handy QT tool for it? Prolly QTDesigner or
>something right? I'm not super clued up on full scale QT dev'ing, just
>struggle through hacking existing code... Or did you do this by hand
>yourself?

>Col.

Hi Col.

Not sure what other dev's use but I just edit by hand. I use Kate
which does colour syntax highlighting which makes it a little easier to
see what's what. Just make sure you turn 'Use spaces instead of tabs to
indent' to on or else it likes to replace your indents with tabs.

I'm not a professional programmer most of the programming I have done
is on Windows using Borland Delphi which uses Pascal as the language.
I'm used to selecting a control from a pallet, plonking it on a form,
writing
a few simple event handers, compiling and debugging all in one
Integrated Development Environment! You can write quite powerful
database progs in a matter of a few minutes. By comparison working on
Myth is like going back to the stone age. One thing I REALLY miss
is code completion. Because I'm not all that familiar with QT or Myth
I spend a lot of time looking up function names/argument order etc.

Paul