[mythtv] Recording group persistence

[Jim Stichnoth]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Chris Pinkham <cpinkham at bc2va.org> wrote:
> * On Sat Jan 09, 2010 at 08:06:58AM -0800, Jim Stichnoth wrote:
>> I have a few shortcuts in mainmenu.xml that end like this:
>>     <action>TV_WATCH_RECORDING Movies</action>
>>
>> I also have a "TV Recording Playback" jump point defined, which is
>> equivalent to the TV_WATCH_RECORDING action without an argument.
>>
>> I have noticed that when this action takes an argument (e.g. Movies),
>> the recording group filter is only temporary, in the sense that
>> DisplayRecGroup is not updated in the settings table.  This means that
>> the TV Recording Playback jump point starts with a seemingly random
>> group filter.
>
> Shouldn't seem random, it should seem like it went to the last group
> you actually chose via the popup menu.

I mostly use the TV_WATCH_RECORDING action whereas my wife uses the
popup menu to change groups, so I see her last group if I use the
playbackbox jumppoint.  This is what makes it seem random to me.  :)

> It was a design decision to not
> save the new group value.

OK, thanks.

Jim