[mythtv] Correct way to write out to the settings table?

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 01:18:00AM +1300, Drew Whittle wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 03:09, Drew Whittle wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-02-22 at 02:47, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > > ThemeSelector theme;
> > > theme.setValue(themename);
> > > theme.save(db);
> > > 
> > > should work.
> 
> Confusion rains surpreme here, I have my doubts this is what I want,
> (please remember I'm only learning) what I want to do is take the value
> I have in "themename" and store it in the db as the theme that is used,
> no user interaction, no gui stuff, just save it.
> 
> As you can see from my previous post I am just doing a db-exec with an
> UPDATE statement, but I figure there must be a nicer way to do it. 
> 
> I've tried to use what has been suggested and I have come to the
> conclusion that this is some sort of GUI stuff.
> 
> Am I totally confused, barking up the wrong tree? Should I just stay
> with my db->exec code?

That code is meant to do exactly what you want.  Did you try it?

If it did not compile, this is probably because it is only declared in
globalsettings.cpp.  However, this class does exactly what you want.

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 - mdz