[mythtv-theming] Watch Recording Buttons?

Fred Squires fsquires at gmail.com
Wed Jan 13 21:02:03 UTC 2010


On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Robert McNamara
<robert.mcnamara at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 12:36 PM, Fred Squires <fsquires at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is it possible to add a row of buttons like in the linked example?
>> http://www.gunaxin.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/drawing.png
>>
>> Basically, I'd like to create a theme with a 3rd buttonlist on the
>> watch recording screen.
>> In the above example, with a show on the right selected, you could
>> press right again and then you'd be able to select an info button, a
>> menu button, and a related recordings button. They would open the info
>> menu, the menu menu, and either jump to current series' group or pop
>> up another screen showing only the recordings of the current series
>> respectively.
>>
>> I was just wondering if this was even possible, before I attempted anything.
>>
>> Fred
>
> Hi Fred,
>
> Not in a theme alone, you'd need to write code to create more optional
> buttons and to add whatever functionality you'd want to attach to
> them.  It sounds somewhat like what Stuart has in mind for touchscreen
> capability in MythUI, though, which is essentially a "touch OSD" that
> can pop up on gesture/touch/whatever and add some context sensitive
> buttons/a faux remote/whatever.
>
> Robert

Thanks for the quick response Robert.

You're right that does sound similar, or at least the buttons/actions
could be the same.
I might take a look at the code, though it's been 9 years since I've
written anything so I'm a little rusty.


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