[mythtv-users] Flattening menus, specifically put Burn DVD on Main Menu

[Scott Traurig]

> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:29:06 +0100
> From: Paul Harrison <mythtv at sky.com>
> 
> Scott Traurig wrote:
>>> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:04:09 -0700
>>> From: Brad DerManouelian <bderman at gmail.com>
>>> 
>>> On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Scott Traurig wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I've been hacking up the main menu a bit by editing the
>>>> mainmenu.xml 
>>>> file
>>>> and have had good success in getting it the way I want with the
>>>> exception of
>>>> getting a direct link to the Burn DVD menu item. It would be
>>>> greatly 
>>>> preferred to not have to drill down through Optical Disks, Archive
>>>> Files and
>>>> Export Files just to get to Burn DVD. Is there any way to put Burn
>>>> DVD at
>>>> the top level in mainmenu.xml?
>>>> 
>>> Curious as to what Burn DVD would do without going through the
>>> Archive Files menu to select things to burn.
>>> 
>> 
>> Exactly, Brad! It doesn't work. I can't just dump it on there. In
>> fact I had trouble with any amount of flattening and "Optical Disks"
>> still holds a place of dishonor on my main menu. There is clearly
>> something I don't understand about the <depends> tag where all this
>> is concerned and it is my assumption that somehow the mytharchive
>> plug-in needs to be entered/instantiated first.
>> 
>> I've had good success with changing the number of items on the menu,
>> fonts, icons, adding menus items for external app's, etc. but I'm
>> stymied on this one!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Scott
>> 
>> 
> 
> You would need to use a jump point something like this for it to work
> :- 
> 
> <action>JUMP Create DVD</action>
> 
> unfortunately it doesn't look like I ever defined any jump points in
> MythArchive so it's not going to work :-(.
> 
> I've just added the necessary jump points to trunk
> (http://cvs.mythtv.org/trac/changeset/21005) so it will now work if
> that's the version you are using, if not you'll just have to wait for
> 0.22 to be released.
> 
> Paul H.
> 

Wow, Paul, now that's service! Thanks!

Now I just need to have the guts to migrate my 0.21 (I forget the build but
pre-fixes) production system from its stable state to trunk! :-0

Thanks,

Scott