[mythtv] V2Capture::AddCardInput

[David Engel]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2022 at 01:51:48AM +0100, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 07/07/2022 01:09, John P Poet wrote:
> 
> > Hi Paul,
> > 
> > The attach patch makes mythcenter-wide show the input name instead of
> > the cardid on the upcoming recordings screen. It demonstrates what David
> > and I have been arguing about (discussing 😃 :)
> > 
> > In Steppes there is room to show the full capturecard "displayname" but
> > in most themes there is not. So David came up with a solution to trim
> > down the dislayname to the last two characters to they would fit in most
> > themes where they would normally show the cardid. Since Steppes could
> > show the full name, I thought limiting it to two characters was too
> > restrictive. Our compromise was to limit it to two characters unless the
> > user used a slash ('/') as part of the displayname. If a '/' is
> > detected, then anything after the slash is now used as the *short*
> > displayname. This effectively allows me to use whatever size *short*
> > displayname I want, while still defaulting to only the last two
> > characters for most users.
> > 
> > Both David and I agree that using the input name (aka displayname) is
> > more user friendly than using the cardid, but most themes still use the
> > cardid. I am happy to commit this mythcenter-wide patch, but wanted to
> > get your sign-off first.
> > 
> > John
> > 
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> 
> That's fine by me it sound like a reasonable compromise.
> 
> 
> It's late and I have not looked at the code but I assume we have a toMap()
> function somewhere that maps the theme template strings to there actual
> values if so one thought I had was to maybe have two template strings one
> for the short 2 character display name and one and one for the full length
> display name that way themers can choose which one they want to use?

That is already the case.  ProgramInfo::ToMap() supports the following
tags, among many others.

Tag         Mapped Item
----------------------------
card        Numeric card ID
input       Short input name
inputname   Full input name

David
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David Engel
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