[mythtv-users] MythArchive in 0.24: Sorting broken in 'Select Recordings'

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Wed Apr 6 11:12:21 UTC 2011


On 06/04/11 10:38, John Drescher wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 7:59 AM, John Pilkington<J.Pilk at tesco.net>  wrote:
>> Hi: I recently switched the 'production' box to 0.24-fixes.  In 0.23-fixes
>> the MythArchive 'Select  Recordings' screen was sorted by date, latest at
>> the top.
>>
>> After the switch it had oldest at the top.  After a few days' use I
>> can't see any logic in the order that I'm now seeing in 'All Recordings'
>> mode.  With that mode inactive, sort order is by title, but multiple
>> programmes in a series are shown unsorted.
>>
>> I don't know of any way for the user to change sorting mode.
>>
>> It would always have been nice to have MythArchive and 'View Recordings' use
>> the same sorting criteria, eg ignoring initial 'An' and 'The' in titles, but
>> the new situation needs fixing.
>>
>
> Has this been fixed? I switched to 0.24 over the weekend and now its
> very difficult to archive my recordings in order since they appear to
> be in random order..
>
> John
>

I opened a ticket for this, it says '3 months ago'.  Nobody's done 
anything with it yet.  DVD is so yesterday.

http://code.mythtv.org/trac/ticket/9486

I've been trying to make sense of

/mythtv-0.24/mythplugins-0.24/mytharchive/mytharchive/recordingselector.cpp

but so far no luck.

John P


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