[mythtv] [PATCH] Make keycontexts hierarchical

[Joseph A. Caputo]

On Sunday 14 December 2003 11:12, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Sunday 14 December 2003 02:40, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> > This patch introduces parent-child relationships in keycontexts.  The 
> > parent-child relationships are stored in a new table, "keycontexts", with 
> the 
> > following structure:
> > 
> > +---------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > | Field         | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
> > +---------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > | context       | varchar(32)  |      |     |         |       |
> > | description   | varchar(255) | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
> > | parentcontext | varchar(32)  |      |     | Global  |       |
> > +---------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
> > 
> > Only contexts for which an explicit parent exists need to be in this 
table; 
> > all other contexts have an implicit parent of "Global".  The following 
rows 
> > should be inserted at minimum:
> > 
> > 
> > mysql> select * from keycontexts;
> > +-------------------+-------------+-------------------+
> > | context           | description | parentcontext     |
> > +-------------------+-------------+-------------------+
> > | TV Playback       | NULL        | TV CommonPlayback |
> > | TV LivePlayback   | NULL        | TV CommonPlayback |
> > | TV CommonPlayback | NULL        | Global            |
> > +-------------------+-------------+-------------------+
> > 
> > This splits the existing "TV Playback" into 2 contexts, and collects 
common 
> > actions between the two into "TV CommonPlayback".  This further reduces 
the 
> > number of unique keybindings required, as LiveTV and normal Playback may 
now 
> > re-use more keys for different purposes.
> > 
> > It's late, and I haven't had time tonight to add the DB stuff to dbcheck, 
> but 
> > I will if someone doesn't do it before I get to it (hopefully tomorrow).
> > 
> > -JAC
> 
> 
> Here's an update with the dbcheck code in place; I bumped the DB version to 
> 1020.
> 
> -JAC
> 
> 

Any comments on this?  It seems to be working well for me.

-JAC