[mythtv] noob to MythTV development

Dave Mansfield muddysteel at gmail.com
Sun Mar 12 16:43:06 UTC 2017


Hi Roger:

Yeah - I'd forgotten about that aspect.  I've been using 'gvim' to this
point, and looking at the coding standards, figured I'd apply an iDE for
consistency.

Well, one contrib today may be a set of templates.. ;)

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Roger James <roger at beardandsandals.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 12 March 2017 9:52:13 am Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/03/17 14:49, Dave Mansfield wrote:
>>
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> First time posting to the DEV maillist and mostly to introduce myself.
>>>
>>> Love the app - been toying around with it since 0.25 ("hosted" it on
>>> SuSE, CentOS, and now Ubuntu). Never really dove under the hood too
>>> much, but with my last hurdle being some remote control woes (I use an
>>> MX-850 with six devices and until it's seamless, my wife will reject
>>> using it!), I've decided to lean into things a bit more formally.
>>>
>>> So, I decided to poke about the bug tracker and cherry pick some
>>> low-hanging stuff allowing me to get comfortable with the flow of things.
>>>
>>> With regards to development:  I've been looking at the web pages and
>>> have not seen info on coding templates for Eclipse.  Has anyone who uses
>>> Eclipse setup code templates?  If so, can I get an exported copy of the
>>> templates?  (Spaces vs. tabs is an ironclad rule with me, too!)
>>>
>>>
>> I use KDevelop myself mainly just for editing purposes so sorry can't
>> help with Eclipse.
>>
>>
>> On the overall architecture: Is there anything that paints the big
>>> picture on how Myth is put together?  One of the more confusing aspects
>>> is what's messaged or signalled vs. read in from the DB layer.  Most
>>> helpful to be able to grok that out early..
>>>
>>>
>> You may have already found it but most of the development docs we have
>> are here https://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Category:Developer_Documentation
>>
>> To answer your question internally if the data we need is in the DB
>> then we prefer to get it from there since it is much quicker.
>>
>> Sometimes the MythProtocol is uses for example if what we need is stored
>> on the master BE then a message will be sent to it to get it things like
>> what is currently recording or to grab something like coverart etc.
>>
>> Cheers!
>>>
>>> --- Dave a.k.a. muddysteel
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Paul H.
>>
>>
>>
> Dave,
>
> I use eclipse. All I do is use an external make file project. Getting
> source debugging to work is a real pain though.  Source containers and
> external makefile​ projects do seem to play well together.
>
> Roger
> l
>
>
>
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