[mythtv] Bruce, a question for you about schedules

[Bruce Markey]

David Engel wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 08:53:23PM -0500, Kevin Kuphal wrote:
>> have a pointer.  I've been considering the idea of adding a simple feature
>> to Myth where, if you have an upcoming showing of a progam recorded by a
>> power search (such as I do for Premier episodes of shows), that you could,
>> when selecting the upcoming episode, be given another option (along with
>> don't/never record, edit options, override) that would allow you to set up a
>> separate title/program specific rule as if the showing was not already being
>> recorded.  As it stands now, I have to wait or remember to look for the show
> 
> Good idea.  Something like this has occurred to me in the past, but
> I've never taken the time to flesh it out.  As Bruce already noted,
> this could be useful for non-search rules too.  About the only rule
> type it doesn't make any sense on are manual recording rules.  Single
> and override rules are debatable.

Singles can be changed to a recurring type so I think there would
be no need and only confusing for the offer. There have been times
that I wanted to change an override to recurring but I think these
were all a variation of this same circumstance. If I clicked "Record
anyway" on an inactive premiere I may have wished I could change
it to a recurring type but if we had a "Add a new rule" button then
this would not be an issue.

I think the underlying function should allow creating a new rule
when there is an existing rule for the showing under any
circumstances but then limit the criteria for when the button
is offered.

> To check for a manual recording rule, you'll need to load the
> PI::record member if needed.  This can be done directly or indirectly
> by calling PI::GetProgramRecordingStatus().  Then, check
> record->getSearchType() for kManualSearch.
> 
>> What I'm looking for pointers on is what to query in the database or what
>> condition to key off to know when to present that button.  I only want it to
>> show on non-title/program specific rules such as power searches and then let
>> me present the standard dialog window for creating a new title/program
>> specific rule.  If you have some advice, I'd greatly appreciate it.
> 
> Bruce already pointed you toweard the dialog in programinfo.cpp.  To
> actually create a new rule, look at SR:;loadByProgram().  You'll
> probably want to modify this to take an extra, optional parameter
> (defaults to off) which always creates a new rule by bypassing the
> call to loadByID().

Agreed.

--  bjm