[mythtv-users] invoke mythmessage with timeout?

Mark Kendall mark.kendall at gmail.com
Sat Jan 28 16:46:35 UTC 2012


On 28 January 2012 14:23, Dave Badia <dbadia at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been playing with mythmessage to display callerid info on my dev
> box which is running master.  When I run mythmessage, the text stays
> on the FE until the user hits the OK button.  Is there a way to call
> mythmessage with a timeout so the dialog will disappear on it's own
> after X seconds?  I'm using it for caller ID and there's no point in
> keeping the info on the screen after the phone stops ringing.
>
> Looking at the help and the source I don't see any, but I figured it's
> best to ask before I start working on a patch.

Just to be clear, mythmessage is no more. Its functionality was merged
into mythutil several months ago.

In master, mythutil -h will point the way, as will mythutil --print-template

regards

Mark

(and yes - before you ask, the timeout only works on messages
displayed during video playback)


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