[mythtv-users] Re: Myth News

[James McElroy]

Great!  Thanks for that Paul.  That resolved my issue.

James


On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:53:10 -0000, Paul <mythtv at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
> >I'm having a somewhat wierd problem.
> 
> >I'm trying to make mythnews useful. On my TV naturally the text is
> >much to small to read. I can plug in a mouse and wheel scroll to
> >resize the text or I can right click and select "zoom in", but I can't
> >figure out how to do it from a keyboard.
> 
> >The only reason I want to do it from a keyboard is so I can figure out
> >what the key command is so I can program it into my .lircrc for my
> >remote.
> 
> >Does anyone know either, how to capture the syntax for the mousewheel,
> >or how to capture the command that the "Zoom In" function uses?
> 
> >Thanks,
> 
> >James
> 
> Hi James
> 
> When you select an article in MythNews it actually starts up
> MythBrowser by default to show the web page associated
> with that article. So the problem is not with MythNews but with
> MythBrowser if I understand your problem properly
> 
> Unfortunately MythBrowser is the only Plugin that does not support
> definable key binding so there is no way to change the zoom other
> than from the popup menu or by using the mouse.
> 
> I have in my own source tree a patch that adds definable key bindings
> for most of the functions available in MythBowser including the ZoomIn and
> ZoomOut functions, as well as some other features I added. If I ever get
> round
> to it I will send a patch to the dev list once I have cleaned the patch up a
> little. I've
> been using it on my production set-up for about 5 or 6 week now with no
> problems.
> 
> There is something you can do in the mean time that could mean you won't
> need
> to change the zoom level that often. On the web settings page change the
> Zoom [%]
> value to a larger default value. Try something like 200. Now when
> MythBrowser
> starts it will use the new zoom level by default.
> 
> Paul
> 
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