[mythtv-users] Features / Operation

[James Armstrong]

That will work. That is basically how the Tivo works. It has a bigger (I 
think better because of the size) listing of the recorded shows (title, 
date / time, channel logo and an icon showing if it is in good standing 
or going to be deleted soon). Once you are at that list of recorded 
shows you press the select or right arrow and it displays the show 
detail, title, when it was recorded, how long it is, when it will be 
deleted, etc and at the bottom of the screen it has the menu choices of 
Play, Delete, View upcoming episodes, Recording settings and Cancel. So 
from the show details you can manage every thing about that show. It is 
nice to be able to see how many, when and the show details of upcoming 
episodes from that screen also. I don't know how many people on this 
list have Tivo's, they have done a pretty good job in my opinion with 
the layout of the menus. I know we don't want to duplicate another 
product exactly, but it would be nice to get a nice, easy, efficient 
interface. I know that the interface is probably the last thing on the 
list with bug fixes, performance, etc coming first. If it would help I 
can do some screen shots of the Tivo's different menus so non-Tivo users 
can get a feel for it. The only other interface that looked really good 
to me was the Moxi product. I wish I could help more with programming 
but I have a disabled wife and two kids to take care of and it is all I 
can do to spend time on the myth box tweaking it at night. I am thinking 
about doing a theme for it soon.

- James

Greg Estabrooks wrote:

>>I initially started this thread because I have a Tivo and like the menus 
>>on it (doing everything from the watch recordings menu). I read in a 
>>post that most things can be done from the Watch Recordings menu and 
>>tried this out myself. The one issue I think I have is the lack of a on 
>>screen menu of choices (without having to press a key to get the menu). 
>>    
>>
>
>
> In the end you would have to press a key to at least navigate any on 
>screen menu to choose the action you want. So, how about this, once you have 
>an episode selected rather than having to press 'I' (or whatever button you
>have programmed on the remote) you just press the Right arrow again to
>get the same menu as if you had pressed 'I' (Play, delete, cancel, etc).
>
>
> Here is a patch to do just that against 0.14
>
>
>
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>--- mythtv-0.14-orig/programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp	2004-01-28 18:34:59.000000000 -0400
>+++ mythtv-0.14/programs/mythfrontend/playbackbox.cpp	2004-04-15 12:26:33.000000000 -0300
>@@ -884,10 +884,15 @@
> 
> void PlaybackBox::cursorRight()
> {
>-    leftRight = true;
>-    inTitle = false;
>-    skipUpdate = false;
>-    update(fullRect);
>+    if (!inTitle) 
>+       showActionsSelected(); 
>+    else
>+    {
>+       leftRight = true;
>+       inTitle = false;
>+       skipUpdate = false;
>+       update(fullRect);
>+    }
> }
> 
> void PlaybackBox::cursorDown(bool page, bool newview)
>  
>
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>
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