[mythtv] MythTV GUI rebuild of current screen

Jonatan Lindblad lindbladjonatan at gmail.com
Thu Dec 12 22:21:24 UTC 2019


Den 2019-12-12 kl. 19:23, skrev Klaas de Waal:
> Hi,
> 
> l am struggling a bit with the mythtv-setup GUI. There are pages, e.g.
> the "Card Type" where the type of the card selected does change the
> number of fields. When you select a DVB-S/S2 device there is an
> additional field about DiSEqC switches that is not present with other
> card types.
> The way it works now is that you have to select the DVB-S/S2 device,
> then save-and-exit, then select the page again and then the additional
> field is there.
> 
> This is definitely not user-friendly and intuitive and I want to
> change this, if only to avoid documenting how this works.
> 
> What I would like to do is to add the DISEqC field while the page is
> being displayed but I cannot figure out how to do that. Setting the
> field visible or not visible does not work. Enable/Disable does work
> and this is an alternative, especially now that the disabled fields
> are now painted grey.
> 
> Comments and hints&tips are appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
> Klaas.

Hi Klaas,

Did you try emitting the settingsChanged signal after you add the field or toggle its visibility? I believe that should rebuild the list.

Cheers
Jonatan


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