[mythtv] [PATCH] Live TV interface tweaks

[Matt Felsen]

Sounds like good work, Morgan. I thought about being able to enter 
channel numbers in the guide, and briefly started to work on it, but 
didn't get very far and I haven't had much free time.

Currently, when in the guide, pressing 4 toggles between a listing of 
all channels and and only favorites. Pressing 6 will bring up the 
program finder. While in the finder, pressing 4 will bring you back to 
the guide. Obviously, these bindings would have to be changed in order 
to get channel number input working.

The way which seems to make the most sense (and a few other people have 
agreed with me on this) is to use m to cycle between the 3 previously 
mentioned views (guide-all, guide-favorites, and finder). If there are 
no favorites, then pressing m while in the guide would bring you 
straight to the finder.

Just some ideas if you decide to work on that...

Matt

On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:09 PM, Morgan Green wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I put together a patch with a few Live TV interface improvements.  It 
> can be downloaded from 
> http://68.6.110.146:8080/mythpatches/mythtv-patch
>
> It includes 3 main changes:
>
> 1) When entering a channel number the channel is immediately changed 
> when the currently entered digits create a valid channel number that 
> could not be extended into another valid channel number by entering 
> additional digits.  If you enter a digit that results in the current 
> set of channel digits not being valid and not being extendable into a 
> valid channel number, the digits are cleared and the process starts 
> over from the new digit.
> 2) Channel numbers can now be entered while in browse mode.  The same 
> code described above governs channel number entering while in browse 
> mode.  Instead of changing the channel being watched this changes the 
> channel being browsed.
> 3) The O key now exits from browse mode and doesn't change the channel 
> being watched.
>
> I also think it would be cool if there was an option to allow channel 
> numbers to be entered in the program guide.  My remote has dedicated 
> pgup and pgdn buttons and I'd much rather be able to jump to specific 
> channels than jump one page at a time anyway.  I haven't had a chance 
> to look into that yet though.
>
> -Morgan
>
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