[mythtv-users] MythWeb Listings - Display Full Day's Data using horizontal scroll bar

[Nick Rout]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:14 AM, Marc Randolph<mrand at pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Tortise <tortise at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> I am interested in making this change.
>>
>> A good example of this working is at
>> http://thomson.tivo.googlepages.com/higuide.htm although it does not scroll
>> the whole day,
>> which would be my preference.  Opening scrolled to the current time would
>> also be nice, I am not so sure if that can be coded so
>> easily though.
>>
>> A quick searching around suggests there is not much written about this, is
>> this ability already built in or where do I need to
>> start?
>>
>> I typically use a 1920 wide display, to display a days data could require
>> three times that width or more....  I generally hate
>> scroll bars but here they are preferable IMHO, especially as the forward
>> and back arrows do not stay in constant places.
>
> Howdy David,
> While I agree that it is slightly annoying that it doesn't display more than
> just 3 hours horizontally (I'd like to see a few more hours), is that
> perhaps a trade-off vs. the performance that it takes to generate and/or
> render 300 or more lines worth of listings for those 3 hours?

Aha but you obviously live somewhere with more than the dozen or so
FTA channels that tortise and I are limited to.

Mind you I can't keep up with the tv I record just on those channels,
what I would do with 300 of them I can't even begin to think!