[mythtv-users] Watch Recordings scrolling and update

Jerome Yuzyk jerome at supernet.ab.ca
Fri Aug 21 01:32:05 UTC 2015


On Thursday, August 20, 2015 04:28:06 PM Jim Stichnoth wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Karl Newman <newmank1 at asme.org> wrote:
> 
> >   2 - when "All Programs" is highlighted, new recordings do not appear at
> >>       the top of the programs column on the right. I have to go down and
> >>       back up for that list to refresh.
> >>
> >
> > That one may be a MythUI issue. That bugs me, too. New recordings actually
> > are added to the list, but it's added above the top line, so you have to
> > move into the list and scroll up to see it.
> >
> > Not MythUI.  This is directly in the mythfrontend program:
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp#L1589
> 
> In  PlaybackBox::UpdateUILists(), it tries to preserve the cursor state
> after asynchronous changes come in, such as a new recording, or another
> frontend deleted an existing recording.  It does this via calls to
> save_position() and restore_position().  It's nice that the cursor remains
> fairly stable when these changes happen.
> 
> That said, if the focus is on the group list, and the episode list is
> already at the top, and a new episode comes in, it would seem to make sense
> to scroll the episode list to show the new item.

That's how it worked for me with 0.21 and the Retro theme, which is why I noticed it was different.

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