[mythtv-users] family acceptance test.

John Pilkington J.Pilk at tesco.net
Tue Aug 18 19:39:27 UTC 2015


On 18/08/15 18:56, Paul Harrison wrote:
> On 18/08/15 11:54, John Pilkington wrote:
>> On 18/08/15 11:00, Robin Gilks wrote:
>>>
>>> I for one have found the new UI MythMusic to be excellent but for one
>>> small niggle!!
>>>
>>> The volume level popup which 'eats' all further remote control keys
>>> (other
>>> than ESC) until it times out and disappears. This may be a
>>> MythCentre-Wide
>>> theme issue but *I* find it *so* irritating!!
>>>
>>> If MythTV was written in 'C', assembler or machine code I could probably
>>> fix it but C++ - I just don't get it :(
>>>
>>> Cheers Paul and all...
>>>
>>
>> Now you mention it...  I have been trying to find a way of relocating
>> popups in MythCenter-Wide - but when using the 'Search' (Ctrl/S)
>> facility in screens like Previously Recorded.  The search works fine,
>> but the box covers much of the info I hoped to find.
>>
>> And I see Paul has committed a couple of MM tweaks recently.  I'll try
>> to give them a whirl, but for much of the time I'm content to accept
>> the results of the BBC's knowledgeable playlist compilers. No MythTV
>> involved then.  :-)
>>
>> John
>>
>
> You just need to change or add the <searchposition> element of the
> buttonlist you are trying to change the position of the search popup for.
>
> So for the 'Previous Recorded' I think it uses the 'programlist' window
> definition so change the <searchposition> here :-
> https://github.com/MythTV/mythtv/blob/master/mythtv/themes/MythCenter-wide/schedule-ui.xml#L1025
>
>
> The first value is the horizontal position and the second is the
> vertical position with 0 being at the top. -1 means centre the position.
>
> Paul H.

Thanks, Paul.  It would have taken me some time to find that.  I've made 
this edit at that position and will try living with it.  Not as pretty 
but I think it will work better.

	    <!--            <searchposition>-1,450</searchposition>  -->
	    <searchposition>600,120</searchposition>

John





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