[mythtv] MythTV GUI rebuild of current screen

Stuart Auchterlonie stuarta at squashedfrog.net
Fri Dec 13 00:22:24 UTC 2019


On 12/12/2019 18:23, Klaas de Waal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> l am struggling a bit with the mythtv-setup GUI. There are pages, e.g.
> the "Card Type" where the type of the card selected does change the
> number of fields. When you select a DVB-S/S2 device there is an
> additional field about DiSEqC switches that is not present with other
> card types.
> The way it works now is that you have to select the DVB-S/S2 device,
> then save-and-exit, then select the page again and then the additional
> field is there.
> 
> This is definitely not user-friendly and intuitive and I want to
> change this, if only to avoid documenting how this works.
> 
> What I would like to do is to add the DISEqC field while the page is
> being displayed but I cannot figure out how to do that. Setting the
> field visible or not visible does not work. Enable/Disable does work
> and this is an alternative, especially now that the disabled fields
> are now painted grey.
> 
> Comments and hints&tips are appreciated!
> 

The bigger and more complicated, but better task is moving scanning
into the backend webserver as part of our never ending quest to remove
mythtv-setup.

I have plenty of ideas on how that should work at an API level.


Regards
Stuart


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